I met my love by the gas works wall   Dreamed a dream by the old canal   Kissed a girl by the factory wall   Dirty old town   Dirty old town   Clouds a drifting across the moon   Cats a prowling on their beat   Springs 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 smoky wind   Dirty old town   Dirty old town   I'm going to make me 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