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

 

Clouds are drifting across the moon. Cats are prowling on their beats

 

Springs a girl from the streets at night. Dirty old town, dirty old town

 

 

I heard a siren from the dock. Saw a train set the night on fire

 

I smelled the spring on the smoky wind. Dirty old town, dirty old town

 

I'm going to 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. Dirty old town, dirty old town.

 

MARI MAC (BARRY THOMAS PRIVETT, CARTER GRAVATT, ET AL.)*

THERE'S A NEAT LITTLE LASS AND HER NAME IS MARI-MAC

AND MAKE NO MISTAKE SHE'S THE GIRL THAT I'M GONNA TRACK

LOTS OF OTHER FELLOWS TRY TO GET HER ON HER BACK,

BUT I'M THINKING THAT THEY'LL HAVE TO GET UP EARLY.

 

NOW MARI AND HER MOTHER ARE AN AWFUL LOT TOGETHER

IN FACT, YOU HARDLY SEE THE ONE WITHOUT THE OTHER

AND PEOPLE OFTEN WONDER IF IT'S MARI OR HER MOTHER

OR BOTH OF THEM THAT I'M COURTING

CHORUS:

MARI-MAC'S MOTHER'S MAKING' MARI-MAC MARRY ME

MY MOTHER'S MAKING' ME MARRY MARI-MAC

WELL, I'M GONNA MARRY MARI CAUSE MARI'S TAKING CARE O' ME.

WE'LL ALL BE FEELING, MERRY WHEN I MARRY MARI-MAC.

 

WELL UP AMONG THE HEATHER IN THE HILLS OF BENAFEE

WELL, I HAD A BONNIE LASS SITTING' ON MY KNEE

A BUMBLEBEE STUNG ME RIGHT ABOVE THE KNEE

UP AMONG THE HEATHER IN THE HILLS OF BENAFEE

 

WELL, I SAID TO BONNIE LASS HOW WE GONNA PASS THE DAY

SHE SAID AMONG THE HEATHER IN THE HILLS OF BENAFEE

WHERE ALL THE BOYS AND GIRLS ARE MAKING OUT SO FREE

UP AMONG THE HEATHER IN THE HILLS OF BENAFEE (CHORUS)

 

WEDDING'S ON A WEDNESDAY, AND EVERYTHING'S ARRANGED

HER NAME WILL SOON BE CHANGED TO MINE UNLESS HER MIND BE CHANGED

WE'RE MAKING THE ARRANGEMENTS AND I'M JUST A BIT DERANGED

MARRIAGE IS AN AWFUL UNDERTAKING

 

SURE TO BE A GRAND AFFAIR BETTER THAN A FAIR

GONNA BE A FORK AND PLATE FOR EVERY MAN THAT'S THERE

AND I'LL BE A BUGGER IF I DON'T GET MY SHARE

ALTHOUGH I MAY BE VERY MUCH MISTAKEN (CHORUS TWICE)

 

 

* Based on a Scottish traditional song