Dirty Old Town - Ewan MacColl / Dubliners - Ukulele Strum-Along Lesson - Jez Quayle

This great Ewan MacColl song is presented with the full lyrics, chords and a suggested strumming pattern, so you can play or sing along with me and learn how to perform this classic tune. A song sheet containing the lyrics and chords can be viewed or downloaded from my songbook blog here: https://jezquaylesongbookhome.files.w... The version of 'Dirty Old Town' I play here is a cross between the ways The Spinners and The Dubliners played it. I first got to know this one back in the mid 1970s when I heard it on an LP by the Liverpool folk group, The Spinners. I've since got to know other great versions, such as those by The Dubliners, The Pogues, and of course, Ewan MacColl's original version. The lyrics refer to locations in and around Salford (then in Lancashire, now in Greater Manchester), the town where MacColl (real name Jimmy Miller) was born and brought up. Salford is no longer such a 'dirty old town', by the way.