Dirty Old Town by The Pogues

The Pogues

Album
Rum Sodomy & the Lash
Released
1985

Dirty Old Town - The Pogues

            [Verse] D D D D -  G G D  D

(I met my love      D D D D - (A A Bm Bm)

 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 x1)


(Clouds are drifting      [Verse] (A  A

 Across the moon                   Bm C)

 Cats are prowling - On their beat

 Spring's a girl

 From the streets at night)

                                 [Instru]

[Verse]               G G G G - C C G  G

(I heard a siren      G G G G - D D Em F#7

 From the docks

 Saw a train - Set the night on fire

 I smelled the spring

 On the smoky wind)    [Intro] A  A  A  A

                               D  D  A  A

[Verse] (I'm gonna make        Bm Bm F#m A

 Me a big sharp axe

 Shining steel - Tempered in the fire

 I'll chop you down

 Like an old dead tree)


[Verse] (Em-X X Bm-X X-Bm/Em A Bm-X) (x2)