Standard (EADGBE)

I met my love by the gas works wall

 Dreamed a dream by the old canal

Kissed a girl by the factory wall

 Dirty old town

 Dirty old town

Clouds are drifting across the moon

Cats are prowling on their beat

Springs a girl in the street at night

Dirty old town

Dirty old town

Heard a siren from the docks

Saw a train set the night on fire

Smelled the spring on the smoky wind

Dirty old town

Dirty old town

I'm going to make me a good sharp axe

Shining steel tempered in the fire

Will chop you down like an old dead tree

Dirty old town

Dirty old town