Dirty Old Town

Dirty Old Town - The Houghton Weavers

I met my love by the gasworks wall

Dreamed a dream by the old canal

Kissed my girl by the factory wall

Dirty old town dirty old town

Clouds a driftin across the moon

Cats a prowlin on their beat

Springs a girl in the streets at night

Dirty old town dirty old town

Heard a siren from the docks

Saw a train set the night on fire

Smelled the smoke of the salford wind

Dirty old town dirty old town

I'm goin to take a good sharp axe

Shining steel tempered in the fire

I'll chop you down like an old dead tree

Dirty old town dirty old town

Dirty old town dirty old town