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T:Dirty Old Town
C:Ewan MacColl
Z:Webmaster
N:Ewan MacColl wrote Dirty Old Town about Salford, Lancashire, England, the 
N:city where he was born and brought up. It was originally composed for 
N:an interlude to cover an awkward scene change in his 1949 play 
N:"Landscape with Chimneys", set in a North of England industrial town.
R: hornpipe
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
|:z2 D2 E2 G2|(B4 B4)|B2 A>G B2 G2|(D4 D4)|
w:I found my love - by - the gas-works croft
D2 G2 B2 d2|(e4 e4)|e2 d>B A2 G2|(B4 B4)|
w:Dreamed - a - dream - by - the old ca-nal -
B2 d2 e2 d2|(B4 B4)|B2 A>G B2 G2|(D4 D4)|
w:Kissed - - my girl - by - the fac-tory wall -
D4 D>E G<B|(A4 A4)|A4 A>G E2|(E4 E4)|
w:Dir --ty- old town - dir -ty old town -.
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W:I found my love by the gasworks croft, 
W:Dreamed a dream by the old canal, 
W:Kissed my girl by the factory wall. 
W:Dirty old town, dirty old town. 
W:
W:2 Clouds are drifting across the moon, 
W:Cats are prowling on their beat, 
W:Spring's a girl in the street at night. 
W:Dirty old town, dirty old town. 
W:
W:3 I heard a siren from the docks, 
W:Saw a train set the night on fire, 
W:Smelled the spring on the smoky wind. 
W:Dirty old town, dirty old town. 
W:
W:3 We're going to make a good sharp axe, 
W:Shining steel, tempered in the fire, 
W:We'll chop you down like an old dead tree. 
W:Dirty old town, dirty old town.

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