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Dirty Old Town

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AI met my love by the gas works wall
Dreamed Da dream by the old Acanal
AKissed a girl by the factory wall
Dirty old Etown
Dirty old F#mtown 
Clouds are drifting across the moon
Cats are prowling on their beat
Springs a girl in the street at night
Dirty old town
Dirty old town 
Heard a siren from the docks
Saw a train set the night on fire
Smelled the spring on the smoky wind
Dirty old town
Dirty old town 
I'm going to make me 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

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Dirty Old Town

by Luke Kelly

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Chords in this song · guitar

F#m

I met my love by the gas works wall

D A

Dreamed a dream by the old canal

Kissed a girl by the factory wall

Dirty old town

F#m

Dirty old town

Clouds are drifting across the moon

Cats are prowling on their beat

Springs a girl in the street at night

Dirty old town

Heard a siren from the docks

Saw a train set the night on fire

Smelled the spring on the smoky wind

Dirty old town

I'm going to make me a good sharp axe

Shining steel tempered in the fire

Will chop you down like an old dead tree

Dirty old town

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