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Dirty Old Town (Ewan McColl)

I met my love by the gasworks door
Dreamed a dream by the old canal
Kissed my girl by the fac'try wall
Dirty old town, dirty old town.

The moon is shifting behind a cloud
Cats are crawling all along the beat
Springs a girl in the streets at night
Dirty old town, dirty old town.

I heard a whistle coming from the docks
And a train set the night on fire
Smelled the spring on a smoke-filled air
Dirty old town, dirty old town.

I'm gonna get me a nice sharp axe
Shining steel tempered in the fire
Cut you down like an old dead tree
Dirty old town, dirty old town.