Dirty Old Town

I found my love by the gas works craft

Dreamed a dream by the old canal

I kissed my boy by the factory wall

Dirty old town, dirty old town

Clouds are drifting across the moon

Cats are prowling on their beat

Spring's a boy from the streets at night

Dirty old town, dirty old town

I heard a siren from the docks

Saw a train set the night on fire

And I smelled the spring on the smoky wind

Dirty old town, dirty old town

I'm gonna make me a good sharp axe

Shining steel tempered in the fire

I'll chop you down like an old dead tree

Dirty old town, dirty old town

Dirty old town, dirty old town

Dirty old town, dirty old town