Dirty Old Town chords by Nolwenn Leroy

• Capo on 2nd

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: D

Difficulty: Novice

Music & Lyrics: Ewan MacColl
Album: Bretonne (Edition Noël) (2011)


You can also play with capo 2, transpose -2

Intro:
|D   |D   |D   |

Verse 1:
D           D   D                 D
 I found my love by the gas works craft
D             G  G             D
  Dreamed a dream by the old canal
D            D  D               D
 I Kissed my boy by the factory wall

Chorus:
D           A
  Dirty old town
D           Bm
  Dirty old town

Verse 2:
Bm           D       D           D
  Clouds are drifting across the moon
D          G       G         D
  Cats are prowling on their beat
D             D D                   D
  Spring's a boy from the street at night

Chorus:
D           A
  Dirty old town
D           Bm
  Dirty old town

Instrumental:
| G  |G   |G   |G    |
|G   |C   |C   |G    |
|G   |G   |G   |G    |
|G   |D   |D   |Em   |

Verse 3:
N.C.        D    D         D
  I Heard a siren from the docks
D          G G                 D
  Saw a train set the night on fire
D                   D    D             D
 And I smelled the spring on the smoky wind

Chorus:
D           A
  Dirty old town
D           Bm
  Dirty old town

Verse 4:
Bm          D  D            D
 I'm gonna make a goood sharp axe
D         G    G                D
  Shining steel tempered in the fire
                  D   D                 D
And I'll chop you down like an old dead tree

Chorus:
D           A
  Dirty old town
D           Bm
  Dirty old town
Bm          A
  Dirty old town
A           Bm
  Dirty old town

Outro:
Bm          A
  Dirty old town
A           Bm
  Dirty old town