Paddy Reilly - Dirty Old Town - 1991 Version Lyrics

Lyrics Dirty Old Town - 1991 Version - Paddy Reilly

I met my love by the gasworks wall

Dreamed a dream by the old canal

I kissed my girl by the factory wall

Dirty old town

Clouds are drifting across the moon

Cats are prowling on their beat

Spring's a girl from the streets at night

Dirty old town

I heard a siren from the docks

Saw a train set the night on fire

Smelled the spring on the smoky wind

Dirty old town

I'm going to make a good sharp axe

Shining steel tempered in the fire

I'll chop you down like an old dead tree, that's what they say

Dirty old town

I met my love by the gasworks wall

Dreamed a dream by the old canal

I kissed my girl by the factory wall

Dirty old town

Writer(s): Ewan Maccoll

Album The Gold and Silver Days

date of release

01-01-1991

1 The Rare Old Times
2 The Gold and Silver Days
3 Dirty Old Town - 1991 Version
4 The Rose of Mooncoin - 1991 Version
5 Festival of Galway
6 Leaving Nancy
7 Scorn Not His Simplicity - 1991 Version
8 Safe In the Harbour
9 When New York Was Irish
10 The Emigrant's Letter
11 Raglan Road - 1991 Version
12 Slievenamon - 1991 Version
13 The Town I Loved So Well - 1991 Version
14 Song for Ireland - 1991 Version
15 The Wild Rover
16 Kilty
17 The Fields of Athenry - 1991 Version
18 The Gartan Mother's Lullaby
19 The Flight of the Earls
20 Working Man
21 The Dublin Minstrel
22 Neidin
23 Heaven Around Galway Bay
24 Dublin, My Dublin
25 The Isle of Inishfree

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