DIRTY OLD TOWN
(Ewan McColl)

Recorded by : Belfast Food; Blarney Lads; The Brogues; 
Ian Campbell Folk Group; Chad & Jeremy; Brian Clancy; Liam Clancy;
Phil Coulter; Cruiskeen; Deal's Gone Bad; The Dubliners;
The Easy Club; The Fenians; Five Alive 'O; Michael Fracasso;
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists; Ewan MacColl; North Sea Gas; The Pogues;
The Specials; Rod Stewart; Vagabond Opera; Waxies Dargle;
Roger Whittaker; The Whole Shabang; Jason Wiber;
The Wild Irish Rovers; 


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