Dirty Old Town

I found my love in the gas light glow

Dreamed a dream by the old canal

Kissed my girl by the factory wall

Dirty old town

Dirty old townClouds are drifting across the moon

Cats are prowling along their beat

Spring's a girl in the street at night

Dirty old town

Dirty old townI heard a siren from the docks

Saw a train set the night on fire

Smelled the Spring on the smokey wind

Dirty old town

Dirty old townI'm gonna take me a good sharp axe

Shining steel tempered in the fire

We'll chop you down like an old dead tree

Dirty old town

Dirty old town

Songwriters

EWAN MACCOLLPublished by

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