The Pogues – Dirty Old Town (Guitar Acoustic Tab)

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Title: Dirty Old Town Author: MississippiHans (arr.+tab.) Time: 4/4, Tempo: Q=125, Beats on eighths are marked "+". Play bass quarters with your right-hand thumb and insert melody/harmony notes. Use thumb-fretting. Let ring. The chord names above the tab lines indicate the left-hand position.
[Verse]
   C                              +                        +                        +
E|---------------------|-0a---------------------|--------------0---------|------------------------|
B|----------------1----|-1a---------------------|------3--p1--------1----|------------------------|
G|------0----2---------|-0a-------0-------------|------------------------|-0--------0-------------|
D|------2---------2----|------2------------2----|------2------------2----|------2------------2----|
A|-3-------------------|-3a---------------------|-3----------------------|-3----------------------|
E|-----------0---------|--------------3---------|--------------3---------|--------------3---------|

            +               F        +                        +               C        +
E|--------------0----3----|-5a---------------------|------3--p0-------------|-0a---------------------|
B|------------------------|------------------------|--------------3---p1----|-1a---------------------|
G|----------0-------------|-5a-------5-------------|------------------------|-0a-------0-------------|
D|------2------------2----|------3------------3----|------3------------3----|------2------------2----|
A|-3----------------------|-0a-----------0---------|-0------------0---------|-3a---------------------|
E|--------------3---------|------------------------|------------------------|--------------3---------|

            +       +          Am       +                        +               C        +
E|--------------3-/5----3----|-0a---------------------|--------------0---------|------------------------|
B|---------------------------|-1a---------------------|------3--p1--------1----|------------------------|
G|----------0----------------|-2a-------2-------------|------------------------|-0--------0-------------|
D|------2---------------2----|------2------------2----|------2------------2----|------2------------2----|
A|-3-------------------------|-0a---------------------|-0----------------------|-3----------------------|
E|--------------3------------|--------------0---------|--------------0---------|--------------3---------|

[Chorus]   
   C        +       +          G        +                        +       +   Am              +
E|----------------------0----|------------------------|---------------------------|------------------------|
B|------------------1--------|-3a---------------------|--------------3--p1--------|-1a---------------------|
G|----------0---0------------|-0a-------0-------------|----------0-----------2----|-2a-------2-------------|
D|------2---------------2----|------0------------0----|------0---------------2----|------2------------2----|
A|-3-------------------------|--------------2---------|--------------2------------|-0a---------------------|
E|--------------3------------|-3a---------------------|-3-------------------------|--------------0---------|
                Dirty   old    town,                                 dirty   old    town!
[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. Clouds are drifting, Across the moon. Cats are prowling, On their beat. Spring-s-a girl, From the streets at night. I heard a siren, From the docks. Saw a train, Set the night on fire. Smelled the spring, On the smoky wind. I'm going to make, Me a good sharp axe; Shining steel, Tempered in the Fire. I'll chop you down, Like an old dead tree. ************************************ | a Arpeggio: all notes in the chord are played harp-like in one beat in fast sequence | p Pull-off | / Slide-up ************************************