Richard Thompson & David Byrne - Dirty Old Town скачать видео бесплатно


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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 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

Комментарии

9 years назад

Bob Jones

Many thanks for posting - two of my heroes that I never expected to see together singing this! I live across the canal from Salford and the song gets sung regularly still in the pubs. Some ignorant comments though..

11 years назад

gaspode18

I suspect it was less a mistake than the fact that they didn't know what a 'croft' was - it is a Lancashire word, after all.

12 years назад

Michael Scales

I liked Byrne's singing better than Thompson's, but Thompson is a great guitarist.

12 years назад

BerlinerStadtschloss

If you call that "music", the poo of my cats is a great piece of art.

12 years назад

GratefulJWB

You obviously are not familiar with Thompson's music.

12 years назад

Scorpion11381

This is one of my favorite and first versions ever heard of this song.

12 years назад

BerlinerStadtschloss

@Badummtsching What kind of punk are you, that you dare to ask?

12 years назад

Badummtsching

@BerlinerStadtschloss Who are you to judge?

12 years назад

BerlinerStadtschloss

This guy Thompson should take singing lessons - got a voice like a dust-bin !!!

12 years назад

Sale_Shark

Fab Verion Of A Classic Song !!!

12 years назад

John Pavlou

The song is about courting a girl in Salford which was at the time a very smoky dirty industrial city. The gas yard croft is a bit of spare ground in front of the gas works. There was nowhere very romantic to take a girl in Salford so a walk down the canal tow path would be a reasonable option. Many factories were built along the canal banks.

12 years назад

allan connochie

@djangolad Folk music does evolve and there are many versions of various traditional tunes. Though this isn't a traditional tune. The words were sang incorrectly whilst the songwriter was still alive and kicking. I imagine the Dubliners simply made a mistake when singing gasworks wall and others learned the mistake from them. It is a big mistake though as it takes the song away from its roots. The 'gasworks croft' was a real place.

12 years назад

melodiantime

GOING OUT TONIGHT, TO MY GOOD FRIEND, JIM SOUTAR.

12 years назад

badyin

Great song "It's the Pogues who screwed up the opening line" They can screw up anything

12 years назад

Leo Bluesy

great song to hear and to play

12 years назад

djangolad

Folk music is meant to evolve. Lyrics rarely remain as they were first written and what's more it's not important.

12 years назад

allan connochie

@andytownboy It should be "gaswork's croft" but various people have changed it for some reason. An early Clancy version has it "where the gaslight falls"

13 years назад

panr317

where and when WAS this? Excellent

13 years назад

andytownboy

The opening line is "gaswork's croft" as written by Ewan MacColl and sung here by RT. It's the Pogues who screwed up the opening line.

14 years назад

dullsvillain

So awesome .....what a combination

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