Intro A|---5-7----5-7---5---------------7-5------5---7---5-| E|-------2------2------2-5----5-2-----2------2-------| C|---------------------------------------------------| G|-2----------------2------4-------------2-----------| Chorus I met my love, by the gas works wall Dreamed a dream, by the old canal I kissed my girl, by the factory wall Dirty old town, dirty old town Verse Clouds are drifting across the moon Cats are prowling on their beats Springs a girl on the streets at night dirty old town, dirty old town Interlude Verse Heard a siren from the dock saw a train cut the night on fire smelled the breeze on the smokey wind dirty old town, dirty old town I'm going to make me a big sharp ax Shining steel tempered in the fire I'll chop you down like an old dead tree dirty old town, dirty old town I met my love, by the gas works wall Dreamed a dream, by the old canal I kissed my girl, by the factory wall Dirty old town, dirty old town Dirty old town, dirty old town