Ewan McColl

I met my [C] love by the gasworks door;

Dreamed a [F] dream by the old ca-[C]-nal.

Kissed my [Am] love by the factory [C] wall.

Dirty old [Dm] town, [G7] dirty old [Am] town.

The moon is [C] shifting behind a cloud,

Cats are [F] crawling all along the [C] beat,

Springs a [Am] girl in the streets at [C] night.

Dirty old [Dm] town, [G7] dirty old [Am] town.

I heard a [C] whistle coming from the docks

And a [F] train set the night on [C] fire,

Smelled the [Am] spring on a smoke-filled [C] air.

Dirty old [Dm] town, [G7] dirty old [C] town.

I'm gonna [C] get me a nice sharp axe,

Shining [F] steel tempered in a [C] fire,

Cut you [Am] down like an old dead [C] tree,

Dirty old [Dm] town, [G7] dirty old [C] town.