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  • 21-02-2005 1:30pm
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    JoeSchmoe
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    ..."dirty old Town"


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    BaZmO*
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    JoeSchmoe wrote:
    ..."dirty old Town"

    Dublin, as if it was that difficult to work out!

    B.


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    Morrigan
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    Warsaw.
    Actually it's probably somewhere in Northern England, coz the writer Ewan McColl was from Lancashire...


    Edited coz i am using a german keyboard and can't spell...


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    [Deleted User]
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    Thought it was belfast?


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    landser
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    it's birmingham... song written by ewan mccoll (kirsty's father) about his home town... Brum


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    BaZmO*
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    landser wrote:
    it's birmingham... song written by ewan mccoll (kirsty's father) about his home town... Brum
    Heard a siren from the docks
    Saw a train set the night on fire
    Smelled the spring on the smoky wind
    Dirty old town
    Dirty old town

    Didn't know there was a docks in Birmingham.

    B.


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    zenith
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    Could be anywhere ...
    .. but the betting's on Salford

    http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=66701#1109218


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    Occidental
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    It's Salford, which is where he's from.


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    JoeSchmoe
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    looks like it's Salford, I didn't think it was about any where in Ireland, we have gasworks but we wouldn't call them that, if it was Dublin the line would be "I meet my love by the gasometer wall" :)


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    flikflak
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    Yep Definitely Salford
    http://www.mickgroves.com/solo.php


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    Pigman II
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    Being a true blue Dub myself I can confirm to you without hesitation that it is none other than ..... Salford.

    (although for a while there I'd heard it was about Liverpool)


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