{t:Dirty Old Town}
{st:Ewan MacColl (1949), The Dubliners (1968), The Pogues (1985), Steve Earle (2015)}
{c:strum: | d - D u d - D u | (weak, STRONG and) 1 2 & 3 4 &}
{c:verse 1}
I met my [G]love by the gas works wall
Dreamed a [C]dream by the old [G]canal
I kissed my girl by the factory wall
Dirty old [D]town, dirty old [Em]town
{c:verse 2}
Clouds are [G]drifting across the moon
Cats are [C]prowling on their [G]beat
Spring's a girl from the streets at night
Dirty old [D]town, dirty old [Em]town
{c:instrumental verse}
([G]1 2 3 4, 1 2 3 4, [C]1 2 3 4, [G]1 2 3 4
[G]1 2 3 4, 1 2 3 4, [D]1 2 3 4, [Em]1 2 3)
{c:verse 3}
I heard a [G]siren from the docks
Saw a [C]train set the night on [G]fire
I smelled the spring on the Salford wind
Dirty old [D]town, dirty old [Em]town
{c:verse 4}
I'm gonna [G]make me a big sharp axe
Shining [C]steel tempered in the [G]fire
I'll chop you down like an old dead tree
Dirty old [D]town, dirty old [Em]town
{c:verse 5}
I met my [G]love by the gas works wall
Dreamed a [C]dream by the old [G]canal
I Kissed my girl by the factory wall
Dirty old [D]town, dirty old [Em]town
Dirty old [D]town, dirty old [Em]town
