Found my love by the gaswork croft

Dreamed a dream by the old canal

Kissed my girl by the factory wall

I heard a siren from the dock

Saw a train set the night on fire

Smelled the spring on the sulfured wind

We're goin' to take a good sharp axe

Shining steel tempered in the fire

And we'll chop you down like an old dead tree

And oh we'll chop you down

Oh, dirty, dirty, dirty old town

And oh whoa oh dirty old town

Chop you down one of these days