Dirty Old Town

Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger * Track #4 On Black and White: The Definitive Collection

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Album Black and White: The Definitive Collection

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Ewan MacColl

1990

Dirty Old Town by Ewan MacColl (Ft. Peggy Seeger)

Release Date

Sat Jan 01 1949

Performed by

Ewan MacCollPeggy Seeger

Produced by

Tom Scott

Writed by

Ewan MacColl

About

The song was written about Salford, Lancashire, England, the city where MacColl was born and brought up. It was originally composed for an interlude to cover an awkward scene change in his 1949 play Landscape with Chimneys, set in a North of England industrial town, but with the growing popularity o...

Dirty Old Town Lyrics

[Verse 1]
I found my love by the gasworks croft
Dreamed a dream by the old canal
Kissed my girl by the factory wall

[Refrain]
Dirty old town, dirty old town

[Verse 2]
I heard a siren from the docks
Saw a train set the night on fire
Smelled the spring on the smoky wind

[Verse 3]
Clouds are floating across the moon
Cats are prowling upon their beat
Spring's a girl in the streets at night

[Refrain]
Dirty old town, dirty old town

[Verse 4]
I'm going to make a good sharp axe
Shining steel tempered in the fire
We'll chop you down like an old dead tree

[Refrain]
Dirty old town, dirty old town

Dirty Old Town Q&A

Who wrote Dirty Old Town's ?

Dirty Old Town was written by Ewan MacColl.

Who produced Dirty Old Town's ?

Dirty Old Town was produced by Tom Scott.

When did Ewan MacColl release Dirty Old Town?

Ewan MacColl released Dirty Old Town on Sat Jan 01 1949.

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