Dirty Old Town

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High Germany

from the album
"Some Irish Stew"

On February 8, 1587

Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded at Fotheringay Castle after being imprisoned in England for the best part of twenty years.

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Dirty Old Town	[print]
(Ewan MacColl)

I met my love by the gasworks wall Dreamed a dream by the old canal I kissed my 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 from the streets at night Dirty old town, dirty old town I heard a siren from the docks Saw a train set the night on fire I smelled the spring on the smokey wind Dirty old town, dirty old town I'm going to make me a big sharp axe Shining steel tempered in the fire I'll chop you down like an old dead tree Dirty old town, dirty old town

A very popular song on the British folk scene.

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