Dirty Old Town The Dubliners

Dirty Old Town

The Dubliners

Austin

234
0:00 2:46
Tuning Standard (E A D G B E)
Beat 4/4
Key: G
Capo:
No capo
Strumming 1

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Lyrics

[Intro]
| G | - | - | - |

[Verse 1]
         G
I met my love by the gas works croft
          C                  G
Dreamed a dream by the old canal
Kissed my girl by the factory wall
          D7    C         Em
Dirty old town, dirty old town

[Verse 2]
G           G
 Clouds are drifting across the moon
        C                  G
Cats are prowling on their beat
Springs a girl from the streets at night
          D7    C         Em
Dirty old town, dirty old town

[Verse 3]
G          G
 I heard a siren from the docks
      C                      G
Saw a train set the night on fire
Smelled the spring on the smoky wind
          D7    C         Em
Dirty old town, dirty old town
G             G
 I'm going to make a good sharp axe

[Verse 4]
        C                     G
Shining steel tempered in the fire
I'll chop you down like an old dead tree
          D7    C         Em
Dirty old town, dirty old town

[Verse 5]
G         G
 I met my love by the factory wall
          C                  G
Dreamed a dream by the old canal
Kissed my girl by the factory wall
          D7    C         Em
Dirty old town, dirty old town

[Outro]
          D7              G
Dirty old town, dirty old town

Bars

[Intro]
| G | - | - | - |

[Verse 1]
| G  - | - - | -  - | - - |
| C  - | - - | G  - | - - |
| -  - | - - | -  - | - - |
| D7 - | - C | Em - | - - |

I met my love by the gas works croft
Dreamed a dream by the old canal
Kissed my girl by the factory wall
Dirty old town, dirty old town

[Verse 2]
| G - | G  - | - - | -  - |
| - - | C  - | - - | G  - |
| - - | -  - | - - | -  - |
| - - | D7 - | - C | Em - |
| - - |

Clouds are drifting across the moon
Cats are prowling on their beat
Springs a girl from the streets at night
Dirty old town, dirty old town

[Verse 3]
       | G - | G  - | - - |
| -  - | - - | C  - | - - |
| G  - | - - | -  - | - - |
| -  - | - - | D7 - | - C |
| Em - | - - | G  - | G - |
| -  - | - - | -  - |

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, dirty old town
I'm going to make a good sharp axe

[Verse 4]
                   | C  - |
| - - | G  - | - - | -  - |
| - - | -  - | - - | D7 - |
| - C | Em - | - - |

Shining steel tempered in the fire
I'll chop you down like an old dead tree
Dirty old town, dirty old town

[Verse 5]
                    | G - |
| G  - | - - | -  - | - - |
| C  - | - - | G  - | - - |
| -  - | - - | -  - | - - |
| D7 - | - C | Em - | - - |

I met my love by the factory wall
Dreamed a dream by the old canal
Kissed my girl by the factory wall
Dirty old town, dirty old town

[Outro]
| D7 | - | G |

Dirty old town, dirty old town

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