Dirty Old Town
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Dirty Old Town
Ewan McColl
I met my
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love by the gasworks door;
Dreamed a
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dream by the old ca
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nal.
Kissed my
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boy by the factory
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wall.
Dirty old
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town,
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dirty old
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town.
The moon is shifting behind a cloud,
Cats are crawling all along the beat,
Springs a girl in the streets at night.
Dirty old town, dirty old town.
I heard a whistle coming from the docks
And a train set the night on fire,
Smelled the spring on a smoke-filled air.
Dirty old town, dirty old town.
I'm gonna get me a nice sharp axe,
Shining steel tempered in a fire,
Cut you down like an old dead tree,
Dirty old town, dirty old town.
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