Dirty Old Town lyrics
I met my love by the gas works wall
Dreamed a dream by the old canal I kissed my girl by the factory wall Dirty old town Dirty old town Clouds a drifting across the moon Cats a prowling on their beat Spring's 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 smokey wind Dirty old town Dirty old town I'm going to make 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 (Ewan McColl) SONG: Jesse James Jesse James we understand Has killed many a man He robbed the Union trains He stole from the rich and gave to the poor He'd a hand and a heart and a brain Well it was on a Saturday night The stars were shining bright They robbed the Glendale train And the people they did say for many miles away It was those outlaws Frank and Jesse James Now Jesse had a wife Lived a lady all her life Her children they were brave But history does record That Bob and Charlie Ford Have laid poor Jesse in his grave Well it was Bob and Charlie Ford Those dirty little cowards I wonder how they feel For they ate of Jesse's bread and they slept in Jesse's bed And they laid poor Jesse in his grave Now Jesse had a wife Lived a lady all her life Her children they were brave But history does record That Bob and Charlie Ford Have laid poor Jesse in his grave Well the people held their breath When they heard of Jesse's death They wondered how he came to fall Well it was Robert Ford in fact who shot him in the back While he hung a picture on the wall Now Jesse had a wife Lived a lady all her life Her children they were brave But history does record That Bob and Charlie Ford Have laid poor Jesse in his grave (Trad. Arr. The Pogues)
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