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Track: Dirty Old Town
Artist: The Pogues
Album: Rum Sodomy & The Lash (Expanded Edition)

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Name: The Pogues
Spotify Genres: celtic punk, celtic rock, christmas, folk punk, celtic
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The Pogues are an Irish-British Celtic punk / folk band founded as [a=Pogue Mahone] ("kiss my arse" in Gaelic) in London in the early 1980s. Founder & front man [a=Shane MacGowan] was fired in 1991, going on to form [a=Shane MacGowan And The Popes]. The band continued, with some lineup changes (including the temporary addition of [a=Joe Strummer]), until 1996. The group reformed in 2001, and played their final show in August 2014, shortly after the death by cancer of [a=Philip Chevron] on 8 October 2013. [a=Darryl Hunt] died on 8 August 2022, and MacGowan passed away on 30 November 2023. [a=Spider Stacy], [a=James Fearnley], and [a=Jem Finer] reconvened under The Pogues' name, with a long list of special guests, for a series of shows in 2024 & 2025 curated by Stacy to celebrate the 40th anniversaries of [Link] and [Link].

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Release: The Pogues - Dirty Old Town
Year: 1985
Genres: Rock
Styles: Folk Rock, Alternative Rock, Punk

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LYRICS

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

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

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
Dirty old town
Dirty old town