Hazel Whyte
Dirty Old Town
Celtic Songs and Traditional Ballads
Modern
and
Traditional
Folk Music
Dirty Old Town  

I met my love by the gas works wall
Dreamed a dream by the old canal
I kissed a girl by the factory wall
Dirty old town dirty old town

Clouds a drifting across the moon
Cats a prowling on their beat
Spring's a girl  in the street at night
Dirty old town dirty old town

Heard a si- ren from the docks
Saw a train set the night on fire
Smelled the spring in the smokey wind
Dirty old town dirty old town

I'm going to make a good sharp axe
Shining steel tempered in the fire
Will chop you down like an old dead tree
Dirty old town dirty old town

Dirty old town dirty old town
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