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Bap Kennedy: DIRTY OLD TOWN by Ewan MacColl
Domestic Blues, 1998 E-Squared Records
Transcribed by <chrisashley@yahoo.com>

Bap Kennedy- acoustic guitar, vocals
Roy M. Huskey Jr.- upright bass
Peter Rowan- mandola, background vocals
Jerry Douglas- dobro
Steve Earle- acoustic guitar
Larry Atamanuik- drums

Time:4/4

Acapella; first voice, then second voice:
I met my love
		Met my love
By the gasworks wall
		By the gasworks wall
Dreamed a dream
		Dreamed a dream
By the old canal
		By the old canal
I kissed my girl
		I kissed my girl
By the factory wall
		By the factory wall
Dirty old town
Dirty old town

G
Clouds are drifting

Across the moon
               C
Catch a prowler
          G
On the beat

Springs a girl

In the street at night
           D
Dirty old town
            Em
Dirty told town

G
I heard a siren

A'coming from the dock
             C
I saw a train
                     G
I set the night on fire

Smelled the spring

And the smoke and wind
            D
Dirty old town
            Em
Diry old town

G
I'm gonna make me

A good sharp ax
            C
Shining steel
                 G
Tempered in the fire

I'll chop you down

Like an old dead tree
            D
Dirty old town
            Em
Dirty old town
           D
Dirty old town
           Em
Dirty old town
           D
Dirty old town
           Em
Dirty old town