Pogues - Dirty Old Town Chords
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Date: Fri, 03 Oct 1997 08:34:09 -0500
From: Joseph Leary
Subject: CHORDS : "Dirty Old Town" by THE POGUES
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DIRTY OLD TOWN
Artist: The Pogues
Transcriber: Joe Leary
(Shuffle feel, very open and loose)
G
Met my love, by the gas yard wall
C G
Dreamed a dream, by the old canal
Kissed my girl, by the factory wall
D Em
Dirty old town, dirty old town
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G
Heard a siren from the dock
C G
saw a train cut the night on fire
G
smelled the breeze on the smokey wind
D Em
dirty old town, dirty old town
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G
I'm going to make a big sharp ax
C
shining steel tempered in the fire
G
I'll cut you down like an old dead tree
D Em
dirty old town, dirty old town
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G
Clouds are drifting on the street
C
Cats are prowling on their beats
G
Springs a girl on the streets at night
D Em
dirty old town, dirty old town
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G
Met my love, by the gas yard wall
C
Dreamed a dream, by the old canal
G
Kissed my girl, by the factory wall
D Em
Dirty old town, dirty old town
Pogues - Dirty Old Town Chords :: indexed at Ultimate Guitar.
About artist:
Their politically-tinged music was influenced by The Clash,[2] yet used traditional Irish instruments such as the tin whistle, banjo, cittern, mandolin, accordion, and others. In the later incarnations of the band, after the departure of Shane MacGowan, rock instruments such as the electric guitar would become more prominent. The first of The Pogues' albums, Red Roses for Me, borrows much from the punk tradition of MacGowan's previous band The Nipple Erectors (later dubbed "The Nips").
The Pogues were founded in King's Cross,[3] a district of North London, in 1982 as Pogue Mahone—pogue mahone being the Anglicisation of the Irish póg mo thóin, meaning "kiss my arse".[4]
The band specialised in Irish folk music, often playing with the energy of the punk rock scene in which several of the members had their roots.
Indexed at Wikipedia.