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.
Spring’s a girl in the street at night.
Dirty old town, Dirty old town.

Dirty Old Town
The Pogues (1985), Rum Sodomy & the Lash