Papa Yabo - Dirty Old Town

I don't have all that many fans, so I have to cherish them. So if one of them requests a song, I'll try to oblige. With a mandolin, in this case.
"Dirty Old Town" is a song written by Ewan MacColl in 1949 that was made popular by The Dubliners and The Pogues.
The song was written about Salford, then in Lancashire, England, the area where MacColl was born and brought up. It was originally composed for the 1949 play Landscape with Chimneys, produced by Joan Littlewood and Theatre Workshop and set in a North of England industrial town. With the growing popularity of folk music in the 1960s the song became a standard in the repertory of British folk club singers.
Dirty Old Town
(Ewan McColl)
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 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.
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.
I'll chop you down like an old dead tree.
Dirty old town,
Dirty old town.
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.