Chords for Luke Kelly: Dirty Old Town (1976)

[G] The next song is also, this is very [Ab] peculiar, a love song written to a place, not to a woman, but to a place.
_ [G] The place is outside of Manchester called, a place called Salford, _ and it's called _ _
Dirty Old Town. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Now this song, this song has got a very simple and very easy gentle chorus, and if you know it,
[A] _
[G] let's hear you sing.
We've heard you shouting enough, so now let's hear you sing, okay?
Okay, you'll do that for us.
I know you will. _
I met my love _ _ _ by the gasworks cross _ _ _
_ [C] Dreamed that dream _
[G] by the old town
I _ [C] kissed [G] my _ girl
by the factory _ wall _ _
_ [Am] Dirty old town
_ [D]
Dirty [Em] _ old _ town _
_ _ [G] _ I heard a _ sound
_ _ [C] [G] from the _ door
_ _ _ [C] Saw the train
_ _ set [G] the night on _ fire
_ _ [C] I [G] smelled the spring
_ on the smoky way
_ _ _ Dirty [Am] old town
_ [D] _ _ [Em] Dirty old _ _ _ _ town
[G] _
_ _ _ Clouds are _ _ _ drifting
[C] _ [G] _ across the moon
_ _ Cots [C] are _ _ _ rolling [G] on their _ _ _ feet
_ Springs a _ girl
_ from the streets of love
_ _ _ Dirty [Am] old town
[D] _ _ [Am] Dirty [Em] old _ town
_ I'm _ [G] _ _
going to make _ _
a good shop _ _ _ _ _ Shining [C] _ _ steel _
tempered [G] in the fire _ _ _
[C] By a chop [G] you'll die _ _ _
like an old dead _ tree _ _
Dirty [Am] old town _ _
Dirty _ [Em] old town _ _
I [G] _ _ met my love
_ _ _ by the gasworks _ cross
_ _ _ [C] Dreamed that dream
_ _ by the [G] old town
I _ _ kissed my _ girl
_ by the factory _ wall Let's sing
_ [Am] Dirty old town
_ [D] _ _ _ [E] Dirty old [Em] _ town
_ _ [Am] Dirty old _ [D] town
_ _ [G] Dirty old _ town
_ [C] _ [G] _ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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