Sheet music notes and tab to play Dirty Old Town on a tin whistle (penny whistle). It is a song written by Ewan MacColl and it appeared on The Pogues’ second album, Rum Sodomy & the Lash.
In the original recording, the main solo is played on a tin whistle in the key of C, but the sheet music below is transposed to D major to accommodate a tin whistle in the key of D.
Lyrics
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 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
