Dirty old town       (Listen to sample)

 

(whisting = line three of verse 1)  D -A -G -D

 

                       D

1. I found my love by the gaswork`s croft,

                          G                          D

    dreamed a dream by the old canal.

 

    Kissed my girl by the factory wall,

                    A  - G                D

    dirty old town,    dirty old town.

 

                         D

2. Clouds are drifting across the blue,

                     G                       D

    cats are prowling on their beat.

 

    Spring`s a girl in the streets at night,

                    A    - G                D

    dirty old town,      dirty old town.

 

                   D

3. I heard a si-ren from the docks,

                G                              D

    saw a train set the night on fire.

 

    Smelled the spring in the smoky wind,

                    A  - G               D

    dirty old town,   dirty old town.

 

                        D      

4. I`m gonna make a good sharp axe,

                   G                              D

    shining steel tempered in the fire.

 

    I`ll chop you down like an old dead tree,

                           A  - G                       D

    you dirty old town,    you dirty old town.

 

5. = whistling of verse 1  

 

    (Roger Whittaker)