Dirty Old Town - The Pogues - Lyrics ,
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- Опубліковано 1 кві 2010
- 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
Spring's 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 smoky wind
Dirty old town
Dirty old town
I'm gonna 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
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
Dirty old town
Dirty old town
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This was just beautiful. I am deaf so couldn't hear the singing, but just reading the lyrics created such a deep feeling in me a poetic sadness.
Love you buddy..I here for you in Jesus name.. I'm a portagee..but your not as drunk as me..Happy Saint PATRICK'S DAY..From Lenny Luzitano.
South of Boston Massachusetts.USA
Nikki: words written by Ewan McColl about the town in the north west of England called Salford 🎼🎵🎶🎹🪗🎻🎵🎶
Got problems with my right ear but yes lyrics are beautiful 😢
@@joline2730 Actually Salford is a city, but gets overshadowed by Manchester next door.
The lyrics are so powerful. Anyone in Britain from a certain generation can relate to them. So glad you got to 'hear' them.
Best song about Salford ever...Some would still like to chop us down "like an old dead tree" but we're still here. And still have a thriving Irish community :)
I know it's a 5 year old comment but good on ye fella, my best mates from Salford, love from Glasgow❤
How is it about Salford
@@jakestorey190 Hi Jake. Scottish folk singer Ewan MacColl, wrote the song. The "Dirty Old Town" is Salford.
Hey Ned. Thanks for the reply, Glasgow is a top city, I once went to a party in Glasgow and I still talk about it 25 years later. Cracking people. Brilliant sense of humour, the best.
The Pogues and Dubliners made everyone think this is an Irish song, but it was written about Salford by a Scotsman who was raised in England.
@@gweilospur5877 Is the Dubliners the one with Ronnie drew
One of my dads favourite songs! I miss him so much 1974-2019 💚🖤
My absolute favourite piece @ 1:26
God, i miss the 90s so much.
❤ RIP your dad great song
A lovely song, but nothing to do with Ireland. It's Manchester, England.
Thank you for sharing this song here. Whenever I listen to it I get transported to 1989, London. The first time I heard it, I was riding one of the subway trains in London, my first days there. I was 20 and everything seemed so magical to me. That’s when a busker entered the train with his guitar in hand, a harmonica holder around his neck. He started playing and singing this song. I was totally hypnotized. That moment will be etched in my mind forever.
RIP Shane. Thanks for the music! Drink a pint in heaven for me!
This song is stuck in my brain -- it's on a loop -- I love it!
In some way, this soothes my broken heart from a love I never had. Thank you Pogues.
Written by the great songwriter Ewan McColl, born in Salford to Scottish parents. He also wrote the beautiful love song first time ever I saw your face.
This song is an absolute masterpeace.
Stop arguing about where the song is about even though its about salford.
This song resonates with all us dirty old town dwellers both sides of the pond.
Shane made the connection between british and irish music because him and his band were super talented and different.
Respect to all my fellow dirty old town dwellers and RIP Shane lad.
Just enjoy listening to the song folks..
Love, respect and wishing you all a merry christmas from a dirty old town in central England.
this was written by Ewan MacColl not Shane.
@soldiernelly it certainly was mate and Shane and the band pulled it off big time. 👍
@@soldiernellywho was Kirsty MacColls dad.
Could be about so many towns/cities and that's the beauty of it. The listener can project. Reminds me of Belfast.
RIP Shane ! Tu resteras à jamais dans mon cœur avec cette chanson magnifique que j'écoute et écouterai toujours en pensant à toi.. Bon voyage mec ! Dirty old town ❤
If you suffer from panic attacks or or other anxiety disorders listen to this, it helps me all the time and I think it could help others.
Agreed. And I hope it keeps helping. I sing it to myself when I'm locked in ptsd.
PTSD is horrible memories and we only live once! Time waits for no man, ❤️
@@mikeyyoyo6464 except , in my case , it is a conditioned response to stimulus that I have NO control over, it's not memory that plagues me, it's the physical response, the adrenaline dump, the fight or flight reflex.
Lawrence, my memories spark emotions from long ago and they haunt me so how can you experience feelings without memories kicking them off ? 🤷🏻♂️
@@mikeyyoyo6464 because my ptsd isn't due to things I saw, but acquired, over time, with stimuli that was repeated over and over. Everyone's experience is different, and that is one of the reasons it's so insidious, because everyone's experience is different. I do sometimes use memories to help stop my brains wiring from taking over.
Shane MacGowan we Salute you 💚 love and respect x
I had an elderly Irishman as my Latin teacher in high school, and he was a delight! Every St. Patrick's Day, instead of working, we would literally do nothing except listen to Irish music (Including this song) for 40 minutes straight. It was such an awesome experience that my friend and I continue to listen to the same songs to this day (which is St. Patrick's, btw :D)
This is an English folk song written by Ewan McColl and based on Salford next to Manchester. The Irish already have a wealth of beautiful music and songs and no
need to claim this one.
Must be a 'murican. They often seem to think English folk music is Irish, and Irish poets are English.
@@Rambling54321 the pogues are an irish celtic band shane macgown is irish....
What was the classes opinion on irish music then?
@@snowyy1919 he was born in England that makes him... ENGLISH 😂
My dad used to sing this all the time when I was growing up, truly has a special place in my heart
My favourite piece @ 1:27
This wonderful song has taken me back when times was good. The 90s was such a great decade and the music was powerful. I really miss the 1990s so much.
God bless you and your father ....im french and i love this song me too 🙏😉
Where u from?
My daddy loved this song. He is in heaven now singing this song with the Angels
Love this song, reminds me of my dad. Love you dad. Hope youre okay up there. 1971-2012.. Always watch over me.
Ella Marie Damn babe ! God bless you! Your old man was only 2years older than me! Sorry for your loss!
Thank you, God bless you too 🙏
+Michael Smyth?
Yeah listening to this remindes me of the people I've lost honestly just reminds me of all those nights surrounded by the people I love. i'm sorry for your loss, God Bless.
Ella Marie you poor darling xxx
This town has existed in many places, that's the power of it
Jules Moules the town exists outside of Europe too. I've seen it everywhere in America.
This song is definitely about the Tokyo Megalopolis
This tune takes me back to earlier days in Chicago, Illinois
Also New Bedford and fall River Massachusetts...
@@justanotheraccount8398 American cities and old cant get along
Reminds me of my father. He used to listen every day when he was still alive. I miss him so much. 1940-2016.
Rip your dad❤
This song is incredible my dad used to sing it and everytime I listen it it makes me think of him. Lives on in my heart forever. Love you dad RIP you old git.
Awesome! Will always love the pogues! Sunshine, beer, BBQ and dirty ol' town playin darts in the garden, ....perfect.
This was my dad's favourite song I come back to listen to this when i think of him I hope he is listening to this in the sky, I miss u everday dad.
One of my grandads favourite songs god rest his soul forever young ❤️❤️❤️
Every year ever since i was little my uncle would travel to new mexico and load up his truck with fireworks for our annual 4th of july event. Everything was always so extravagant. At night when the fireworks show started, he would crank up his surround so loud outside and blare this song. It became a family tradition. Now all the nieces nephews and grandkids knowthis song and we sing it as a family every year during the grand finale. This will be our first year without our annual tradition. R.i.p. uncle. U took your songs and our family happiness with you when you left this world. Dirty ol town
Written about my hometown Salford in the UK where I was born and bred and still proudly live. I'm nearly 59 but know and remember everything sang about in this magical song. A beautiful Salford Anthem.
Sadly the actual Gas works have gone but the big old original wall surrounding them are still there.
As for the working Salford Docks they have long gone now. It's now known as Media City full of upmarket private developments restaurants and shopping.
Bring back the old days and the old times. Salford is almost unrecognisable now from the times wrote about in the song. Ordsall the Docks everything gone.
The train sang about in the song was the one that went through Ordsall straight to the Docks but long gone now. There was a rumour when we was kids that when it was abandoned the old railway tunnels used to contain a captured German Train full of dead Nazis and Gold lol. We called them the the death tunnels and used to dare each other to go as far as possible in them it was pitch black. Those were the days lol miss them so much 😞
Forgot to add the old canal sang about in the song is the Manchester Ship Canal it linked Liverpool to Salford and Ships from all over the world would sail into Salford Docks in its heyday.
My Dad and many family friends was Dockers or was in the merchant navy. So proud of the history and heritage of our Dirty Old Town.
Aww, so lovely. Progress is a bitch. No industries like that now. I'm Scottish we lost it all too.
Real lyrics and music about the working classes. So much soul in his voice. R.I.P mate you deserve it.
This song always takes me back to the summer it first made it big in the US, which I think was around 1984 or so. I was 24, fresh out of the Navy, attending college and dating a prima-ballerina who worked nights as a bartender in Old Towne, Alexandria. On those deeply dark, sultry summer nights, as I waited for Tina outside the bar, I would lean against the building's wall and let its red bricks, still radiating heat from the hot summer's sun, warm my back. The lyric "I kissed my girl by the factory wall" is especially poignant, as we shared many a kiss by that same wall in Old Towne. I've moved far, far away from that blessed place, but on the rare occasions when I return to the haunts of yester-year, I always make it a point to visit Old Towne, always late, late at night so I may walk the dark, still streets deep in contemplation undisturbed by others. As I walk by the old wall, our wall, I reach out, touch the brickwork and ask myself "did I ever dare to imagine that one day, some 40 years further on, I would walk this very same sidewalk, stand in this very same place, touch the very same bricking where we once kissed and yearn for her?" If those bricks could speak, what would they say? Would they even recognize the once-slender, svelte former athlete? Would they greet me warmly or admonish me for letting the love of my life slip carelessly through my fingers?
Damn, man... that sounded bitter-sweet as hell. So beautiful yet so melancholic.
May you find joy despite regrets and worries.
Good day to you, sir.
She probably remembers you very well maybe one day she’ll see you on a bus stop and not get there in time to say hello
Bro u make me cry
Who asked?
@@jaywheezy5420 shut up
The nostalgia of this song is unreal . Salford FC ❤️
Up the ammies!
Played this song over and over for my grandad when he passed, love this song
This song feels like hope and pain dancing with each other and I'll forever hold it in my soul for that reason
Rest easy Mr MacGowan ☘️
Genius to write such a romantic ballad with the backdrop of industry and dark shady streets
It's a fantastic song, and it's construction quite interesting and deliberate.
Its form follows that of a bucolic folk song, where the lovers meet on a bank flowers, or under a tree, along with descriptions of the scenery. It considers how these scenes would be played out in a world where there is no bubbling brook or nightingales to sing.
Tony White Well love grows in the sooty stains of the smoke belching factories.
it's a love song to a place called Salford
my city Salford. The gas works and the wall surrounding them are still there.
He was a musical genius but a drunken idiot the other times 😁
best version ever .
A great song written by an Englishman from Manchester, Ewan MacCall, about a gas works the Salford to Bury canal in MANCHESTER, England.
@1woodnut The song was written by Ewan MacColl in 1949 as a musical interlude for his play "Landscape with Chimneys". Both the song and play are about life in industrial Salford, now part of Greater Manchester. MacColl was himself born in Salford but both of his parents were Scottish. He became the major figure in the Britsh folk revival. Apart from this song his two other best known songs are probably Shoals Of Herring and The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Absolute classic. (And of course, actually about Salford and not an Irish song at all!)
One of the greatest songs sung when drunk ever!! The drunker you are the better it sounds. At least to the singer. John from Oz.
Anthem of my native City Salford
A beautiful song for history !!!! Makes me love England
God save the Queen
My dad love this song. Miss him so much ❤️❤️❤️❤️
nice moment on that song. thank you.
this was always my grandads karaoke song but he passed away a few months ago I come here to cry 😭🥺❤️ missing you grandad 😖😭
my two great uncles loved this song and they both died 😥
sad times
My Words: I know this song very well, and The Pogues is such a great band of all time. The memories of this all time classic is so touching.
My Thoughts: It is nice to look back to the time when music was so powerful and really enjoyable. This has certainly brought back so many memories from my past life. I understand how music triggers the mind from years gone by.
My Old Saying: Those were the best days of my life. Gone but never forgotten.
Hi ALL My name is Alan This is one of my favs to sing and play my 6 string or at party's. ILL PLAY IT FOR YOU and your G Dad POTATO next time.
16 years ago I listend to this song in a irish pub in Salou, spain. Never found it again untill today
No way, I went a few years back, do you remember what it was called because there was quite a few
Powerful song....I was born in a dirty old town moved away and now live in a dirty old town......Bring on 2021
Never forget when i hear u a first time....i was to drunked thx for all Your irish music Shane i Miss You
I don't know why this song just cuts so deeply into my soul and into my memory but it does. There is just something about a cold crisp and very clear winters' morning when the river is a millpond and the sun is warming and there is the smell of steam trains in the air. And then you see and hear the loco crossing the bridge and its coming into this side of town where there is the gasworks and the powerhouse and the foundries and the spring makers and the blacksmiths and the iron and steel workers. Over all my years I'd dress up quite smartly on Friday nights and go to a folk bar down by the harbour and sing to this song, every single time the band would strike it up. I loved my 'Dirty Old Town'.
Yes my friend. But for me Derty old town is every where.
This song makes me melancholic, but I love it so...
It reminds me of my teenage years
I love your pfp!
A very very Good song !!!
I miss you Pumpkin. ❤ Everyday is a struggle to get through, I think of you every second of each minute… I love you forever and always 🥺
I still listen to this at least once a week. Soundtrack to a perfect day
My Uncle passed away 3 days ago and I can't get this lovely song out of my head. He lived in England - I live in the USA.
Hi name wasn't David by any chance love x
@@betht7909 No, his name was Patrick Sarsfield but we called him Uncle Sars.
This song is about a dirty old town that a man grew up in and found happiness. For those who lost loved ones it’s a story of their life
this song was one of my nannys favorite songs, love you and miss you nanny 💋
1953-2012
Love you Shane & the boys xxx
Listening to the pogues awakenings the Irish in me😂 my parents would listen to their music, and I loved it!
It's about an English in town love, Salford in Lancashire. The pogues are mostly English too. Not being rude but just letting you know
This is my grandad favourite song. Brings back so meany memories😥👌🏼
Maggie White *many*
Class tune The Pogues ♥️♥️
Another great song by a great legend
It was written by Ewan MacColl not Shane.
RIP Caroline Aherne a true working class lovely. Bless and God speed her soul to her own people. xxx
It triggers something deep inside me. I always start crying when I hear this song...
I love this. I used to sing it at the folk club in Cambridge. Also, when I was walking through fields imagining I was being filmed - no one did it then, I was ahead of time and didn’t know it.
Classic I’m 60 born in 1960. And still relate to great tunes
Timeless. Forget fashion and enjoy everything you can.
Unbelivible good song.
Its a shame that this song seems to be Salford's anthem to the world yet we have given it so much much more xx x xx xx
This is a killer song - Shane's vocals are just awesome
The best poet of his generation hands down x
I've had a drink or 4... Didn't know I needed this song in my life :) Thank you!
+ Mac Gowan . RIP . Beautiful celtic music
A friend of mine had a bottle of "The Pogues" whiskey and never heard of The Pogues. I sent him this video. Needless to say he loved it
I love Ireland, i will come back again for yours beers and friendly hospitality...
It's about an English city.
This has failed to cease being a sing-a-long even after learning to play it, amazing!
I love this song!!! God bless ye!!!!!
R.I.P. Shane your music will live on forever 💚🤍💛
My dad loves thses RIP dad miss you every day till I see you again ❤
Amazing this just popped up on UA-cam just as I'm actually drinking a wee glass of the Pogues own brand whiskey. Give it a try everyone, it'll soon have you singing along, that's if you weren't already. London Steve
Shane MacGowan you're the best singer ever. lots of love tina from Denmark
Tune!!! All the best to my Nan.xx
This song is about Salford, where I was born and live :)
Exactly
I was born hanky park .... Salford ...
Same
ME ENCANTA!!!! DE LAS MEJORES CANCIONES DEL MUNDO CON MUCHÍSIMA DIFERENCIA SIN LUGAR A DUDA!!!! 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝
Can't stop listening to this piece. Heard it on Republic of Doyle..... both great!
Thanks.
Always think of my parents, God love them ✨️ Im from a small village in Ireland, proud irish folk 💚Takes me back home every time i hear it 🇮🇪✨️🙌
Ah. But it written about Salford in Manchester. ENGLAND! The song is about ads Irish as I am.
This the best song of the world! Yes!
He's our center half!
He’s or number 4
Watch him defend
and we watch him score
@@alexandrebray925 he plays the ball
Calm as you like
Moved away from my home and people. This kind of music takes me back and makes me less homesick
Moved to my fiancé’s home town an old fishing town in the uk. Walking through his town I think of this song and I couldn’t be happier to be in his dirty old town with him.
The back alleys of love gone bad, that's the dirtiest part of any town. Classic drinking song. Specially when played live.
This never gets old
I am syrian though but i do not know why i like to listen to this type of songs and musik!
One of my faves!
Always reminds me of the East Perth gasworks and powerhouse and the smell of coal and coke in the air on a cold sunny morning and the sound of a steam engine whistle in the distance. And down by the river at Claisebrook and under the bridge would sleep some of the district's residents and others in doss houses and in old pubs and run down houses. I had a night or two under the bridge myself at one stage. Some found sleeping in the cemetery appealing.. On the stone slabs warmed by the sun during the day. Yes it was a dirty old town but they cleaned it up and ruined it forever. And I did too, meet my first love very much in these surrounds.
Tom Tee I always love songs that bring out such memories in people. I first heard 'The Pogues' in the movie PS: I Love You, they used "Fairy Tales of New York" in the movie.
Tom Tee the other song I like is 'Waltzing Matilda' the song reminded me that Australian troops fought in the Middle East, against the Ottomans. I never learned this in a history class though
Redriverrocl
Nice to find another Perthling here. This song kinda does remind me of that area now you've mentioned it
Bittersweet, romantic, nostalgic, and most importantly, Irish. So many emotions in one song :)
My favourite things:
1) Piping hot cup of tea
2) Good old music
3) A fine litted cigarette
4) No interruptions
5) My own company
6) Watching the time fly by
7) No annoying distractions
Rest in peace big man, Shane passed today 30th November 2023...
You won’t be forgotten…believe that!❤
My Dad used to sing this to me when I was a kid too. All the kids in my family grew up with folk music before we ever heard pop music.
Ok so im a directioner but the pogues just dont get old been brought up on this by my dad! Glad about it to!!
I used to walk past the gasworks wall referenced in this song every day whilst attending uni. It's in Salford. I hear they're demolishing the gasworks but the wall will be left standing thanks to this song.
He's our centre half,
He's our number 4!!!!....
Watch him defend
And we watch him score
He's pass the ball
Calm as you like
He's virgil van dijk
He's virgil van dijk
#YNWA from Indonesia 🔥🔥
Its ours footballs comen home!! 🔥 🔥
HE IS VIRGIL VAN DIIIIJKK
Phil Jones
@@davemacdee 🤭🤭🤭
Wonderful!! = wonderful, adjective, inspiring delight, pleasure, or admiration; extremely good; marvellous.
This song can be absolutely perfect for St. Patrick's Day ☘ 🌈 🇮🇪 and it's one of my favourite Pogues songs of all time. I'm always singing this song on St. Patrick's Day ☘ 🌈 🇮🇪!
It's a great song and it's still a timeless classic.
Happy St. Patrick's Day ☘ 🌈 🇮🇪 from Ireland 🇮🇪!
It is about meeting your girlfriend by a canal (the Manchester to Bury canal) in SALFORD in ENGLAND and written by Ewan MacCall,who was born in Manchester.
Colin mate you’ll be claiming Danny Boy was penned by an Englishman next 😂
He's our number 4 💓💓
Watch him defend and we watch him score
And here I am still loving this in 2018!