About This Video
Namaste,
“ Dirt old town ”
Harmonica & video : FluteFreedom – India
Audio edit & mix : Dr.Len Anderson - U.S.A.
Video Link :
https://youtu.be/BVMeDQ8liBo
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
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
Richard Stoker : Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music - Associate of the Royal College of Music LONDON - UK (Composer, Conductor, Actor, Author, Artist). He has composed more than 11 songs just for me, as he was fascinated by the sound of the Bamboo flute. Ten of them have been made into music videos.
To our deepest regret, he passed away from pneumonia on 24 March 2021 at the age of 82. Let his soul Rest in Peace, his memories shall remain. I shall always be grateful to him.
Dr.Len Anderson - U.S.A, : He is my Guru & mentor I thank him for advising & guiding me all along
Dr.Len Introduction : Leonard Anderson is a retired American educator and musician. Anderson enjoys recording the music he has recorded over 10,000 pieces for flutes, clarinets and saxes. Anderson plays all parts on quartet music and is referred to as "the one man quartet". Web page
if you choose to know about him use either the FREE-SCORES.com site....https://www.free-scores.com/Download-PDF-Sheet-Music-lgdsanderson.htm .....or his YOUTUBE video site....https://www.youtube.com/user/lgdsanderson/videos
I am very thankful to both of them for their support & encouragement, I am where I am due to them.
Songfacts® :
This song was written about Salford, an industrial center in the heart of Lancashire, England that predates the Industrial Revolution. Today it is a metropolitan borough within Greater Manchester.
Songwriter Ewan MacColl was born in Salford and wrote this song about his impressions of the city while growing up. Industrial cities are by and large very dirty places, with factories spewing smoke into the skies and production waste into the rivers. They also invite trains and other modes of transportation to ship goods around the world, each bringing its own brands of pollution into an already choking place.
As Dubliners frontman Luke Kelly said himself on stage once: "The next song is a love song, written to a place, not to a woman, but to a place.
"A place called Salford."
So there you have it. One of Ireland's most famous love songs has nothing to do with Ireland at all. It's about an English town, written by a Scottish man ... but became an Irish classic. Fancy that.
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Thanks
Love & Peace
FluteFreedom
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Release Date
March, 2015
Language
English
Genre
Retro, Harmonica, Folk-Rock
Tags
Irish, Retro, Folk Rock, love
Artist
FluteFreedom
Comments
5 Comment
Klaturi
why it's not a big hit till now
Aduuvala
deserves more and more views
Uthimi
waiting for more
Bodusha
Best sung
Sominni
lovely concept