***Dirty Old Town - by Ewan McColl
from the album "Rum Sodomy & The Lash"

Dirty Old Town - as performed by The Pogues

(Shuffle feel, very open and loose)


[Intro]
              

          
I met my love,

 by the gas wo

rks wall
             
Dreamed a drea

              
m, by the old 

 
canal

I kissed my girl, by the factory wall
             
Dirty old town

             
, dirty old to


wn

            
Clouds are dri

fting across t

he moon
             
Cats are prowl

              
ing on their b


eats

Springs a girl on the streets at night
             
dirty old town

   
, dirty old to

wn

Bridge played over:
                  

         
Heard a siren 

from the dock
             
saw a train cu

              
t the night on

 
 fire

smelled the breeze on the smokey wind
             
dirty old town

            
, dirty old to

wn

             
I'm going to m

ake me a big s

harp ax
             
Shining steel 

              
tempered in th

  
e fire

I'll chop you down like an old dead tree
             
dirty old town

            
, dirty old to

wn

         
I met my love,

 by the gas wo

rks wall
             
Dreamed a drea

              
m, by the old 

 
canal

I kissed my girl, by the factory wall
             
Dirty old town

             
, dirty old to


wn
             
Dirty old town

             
, dirty old to


wn