Dirty Old Town Lyrics - Pogues
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Dirty Old Town ( The Pogues )
( Intro vers ) ( D )
G
I met my love by the gas works wall
Dreamed a dream by the old canal
I Kissed my girl by the factory wall
Dirty old town
Dirty old town
Clouds are drifting across the moon
Cats are prowling on their beat
Spring's a girl from the streets at night
Dirty old town
Dirty old town
( Solo vers ) ( C )
G
I Heard a siren from the docks
Saw a train set the night on fire
I Smelled the spring on the smoky wind
Dirty old town
Dirty old town
I'm gonna make me a big sharp axe
Shining steel tempered in the fire
I'll chop you down like an old dead tree
Dirty old town
Dirty old town
I met my love by the gas works wall
Dreamed a dream by the old canal
I kissed my girl by the factory wall
Dirty old town
Dirty old town
Dirty old town
Dirty old town
( Intro vers ) ( D )
G
I met my love by the gas works wall
Dreamed a dream by the old canal
I Kissed my girl by the factory wall
Dirty old town
Dirty old town
Clouds are drifting across the moon
Cats are prowling on their beat
Spring's a girl from the streets at night
Dirty old town
Dirty old town
( Solo vers ) ( C )
G
I Heard a siren from the docks
Saw a train set the night on fire
I Smelled the spring on the smoky wind
Dirty old town
Dirty old town
I'm gonna make me a big sharp axe
Shining steel tempered in the fire
I'll chop you down like an old dead tree
Dirty old town
Dirty old town
I met my love by the gas works wall
Dreamed a dream by the old canal
I kissed my girl by the factory wall
Dirty old town
Dirty old town
Dirty old town
Dirty old town
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This is not the same song I love to hear | Reviewer: Tessie Wayman | 7/22/12
The song I like, Dirty old Town begins and ends with whistling.
I can't find the original song i heard but it wasn't done WITH a whistle it was a man whistling...and I can't find that rendition....
These guys don't sing it the same. I don't like any of the other versions.
Dirty Old Shane | Reviewer: Patrick Black | 9/23/11
Shane and the boys nailed this one, though the song stands on its own. Notice how Ewan McColl doesn't bother with the cute (trite) rhymes and goes right for picture. I heard this guy in San Francisco name of Brandon (Brendan?) Ross (sorry about the sp) do the song where he sung the line, "I kissed my girl by her factory stall." He was from Boston. Anyone know anything about him?
As sung by another | Reviewer: Anonymous | 9/19/11
I just heard this at the end of the final episode of Rescue Me and it reminded me that I swear this was the same song I heard U2's Larry Mullen belt out at one of many U2's shows I have seen!! What a great old tune!!
Time period.... | Reviewer: Anonymous | 7/18/11
When's a girl going to sing this song- times have changed- ehh! Song must have been written before WWII... before women partook in heavy industry in the UK. Anyone know the period it was written? 1930s maybe or earlier...
Sally and Dirty | Reviewer: Pat. B. Long | 3/17/11
Yeah I love dirty! But Sally has a big place in my heart. A song the pogues don't do That I enjoy is black and tan but didn't realize what it meant (well how offencive it could be. Being a 19 year old canadain at the time) But the beat and rhythm of it is a pretty good sounding song. If only I could do it and not wreck a good night of paddy's again.
Getting it right | Reviewer: robin jones | 6/27/09
The Pogues get it right. There's the brutal environment and the stink of the Gas Works and your man with his flat, edgy voice singing of the only escape he's got left.. Nothing comes close. Rod Stewert is pampered perfumed powder by comparison, and I'd smack Kelly in the god and steal his pint. Shawn McGowan just gets it. There's nothing else. Nothing but silence.
' Dirty Old Town ' | Reviewer: Gregor McKwar | 5/7/08
' Dirty Old Town ' was written by Ewan MacColl, the late Kirsty MacColl's father, in 1949. It is about the industrial city of Salford where he grew up. Salford in a north west of England city next to Manchester!
Mr. Moon's Version | Reviewer: John Sieger | 3/6/08
First trip to England last month. Met and jammed with Mr. Moon in Sheerness. His version was outrageous and funny! He changed one lyric... "I kissed my girl where the sun don't shine" One of the greatest songs ever written.
Classic!
Dirty Old Town | Reviewer: Chris | 6/16/07
The best album for this is "Run Sodomy and the Lash" - Fantasic Album - Sally Maclennane is the best track though - great drinking song.
Others | Reviewer: Anonymous | 4/19/07
The Mountain Goats also do a great a version of this song, you all should check it out!
Dirty Old Town | Reviewer: Amanda | 10/12/05
Dirty Old Town was written by Ewan MacColl in 1956. The song refers to Salford in Manchester. Made more famous really, I think by The Pogues whose version is stellar. A great song.
Dirty old town | Reviewer: Anonymous | 6/12/05
who wrote dirty old town? I`ve been listening to it for forty years since the sixties and its great.Luke Kelly did a fantastic job on it with the Dubliners-who wrote it anyone know?
Which Album | Reviewer: Linda White | 2/2/05
Hi.
I just love listening to Dirty old Town by the Pogues. I was wondering what the title of the album is. I am wishing to purchase it.
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