Dirty Old Town by The Pogues

The Pogues

Album
Rum Sodomy & the Lash
Released
1985

Dirty Old Town - The Pogues

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

(I met my love      G G G G - (D D Em Em)

 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] (D  D

 Across the moon                   Em E#)

 Cats are prowling - On their beat

 Spring's a girl

 From the streets at night)

                                 [Instru]

[Verse]               C C C C - F F C  C

(I heard a siren      C C C C - G G Am B7

 From the docks

 Saw a train - Set the night on fire

 I smelled the spring

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

                               G  G  D  D

[Verse] (I'm gonna make        Em Em Bm D

 Me a big sharp axe

 Shining steel - Tempered in the fire

 I'll chop you down

 Like an old dead tree)


[Verse] (Am-X X Em-X X-Em/Am D Em-X) (x2)