Dirty Old Town

MacColl

I found my love by the gasworks croft

Dreamed a dream by the old canal

I kissed my girl by the factory wall

Dirty old town, dirty old town

I heard a siren from the docks

Saw a train set the night on fire

Smelled the spring in the saltkirk wind

Dirty old town, dirty old town

We'll go and make 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

I found my love by the gasworks croft

Dreamed a dream by the old canal

I kissed my girl by the factory wall

Dirty old town, dirty old town