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Dirty Old Town lyrics

Found my love by the gaswork croft
Dreamed a dream by the old canal
Kissed my girl by the factory wall
Dirty old town, dirty old town

I heard a siren from the dock
Saw a train set the night on fire
Smelled the spring on the sulfured wind
Dirty old town, whoa-oh, dirty old town

We're goin' to take a good sharp axe
Shining steel tempered in the fire
And we'll chop you down like an old dead tree
Dirty old town, dirty old town
Dirty old town, whoa-oh, dirty old town

And oh we'll chop you down
Oh, dirty, dirty, dirty old town
Dirty old town, dirty old town
And oh whoa-oh dirty old town
Chop you down one of these days

Part of these releases

- Track 1 on The Legend of Ewan MacColl
- 2 The Manchester Rambler
- Track 16 on Freeborn Man
- 15 The Battle Is Done With

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Ewan MacColl - Dirty Old Town: The original and best with Peggy Seeger (MacColl's wife) Photographs of Salford in 50s and 60s - the original 'Dirty Old Town' where MacColl grew up. (video from YouTube)

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