The Dubliners - Dirty Old Town (feat. Paddy Reilly) [Live]

[guitarman]

Great tune👍🙏🎸🇨🇮🎸 love irish songs. The Dubliners are awesome. RIP to the ones we've lost. 1962-2012 🇨🇮🌎🙏🎸 50 years of amazing music. Keep it up and thank you for letting the songs still be live played. Paddy Riley and band🎸🙏👍👍👍

[Last_Sherlock]

Great stuff. Thank you for regularly uploading new videos to this day whoever is in charge of the channel. It is really appreciated.

[alanoneill]

The song was written about Salford, Lancashire, England, the city where MacColl was born and brought up. It was originally composed for an interlude to cover an awkward scene change in his 1949 play Landscape with Chimneys, set in a North of England industrial town, but with the growing popularity of folk music the song became a standard. The first verse refers to the gasworks croft, which was a piece of open land adjacent to the gasworks, and then speaks of the old canal, which was the Manchester, Bolton & Bury Canal. The line in the original version about smelling a spring on “the Salford wind” is sometimes sung as “the sulphured wind”. But in any case, most singers tend to drop the Salford reference altogether, in favour of calling the wind “smoky”. (This is the case in MacColl's own 1983 recording of the song.

[dommen]

Dubliners: Extraordinary people all of they.

[ernestotomereivispo]

Que fermosa musica. Unha aperta dende Galicia

[michelroy]

J’adore...j’ai sûrement du sang Irladais...je suis québécois.

[niklar]

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
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

[Marc]

It was sad that Ronnie left in 1995. He is unique. No chance to replace him but with Paddy Reilly came the best ballad singer Irland´s. It was like a lost family member came home. Were good another 10 years. The change then to Patsy Watchorn after Paddy was a desaster. Patsy never fitted in from voice side. The music was no more synchron. And what I hated was if Sean was singing, Patsy tried to join in🙈

Better option would have been Al O ´ Donnell. He helped out in 2010. Great voice!

[fanmaxis]

I wonder what paddy is up to these days. Still recording?

[Mr.Derogatory]

This is right after Ronnie Drew left the group for the the 2nd time