The Pogues - Dirty Old Town

[@ozkaz13]

This song will resonated in the worlds dirty old towns forever. Thanks Shane , you did bloody well .

[@cryptolights6879]

So so true! He is immortal.

[@birgitbey6336]

​@@cryptolights6879öiököooo

[@rosabilly]

True. for me it is Dresden 1993.

[@dcrash_]

God damn right

[@lesliedixon9225]

My favorite Pogues song

[@martintube24]

Rest in peace, sir. Thank you for giving us this song 🙏

[@DanCoffee]

Wasn't written by him, though.

[@aydencaldwell2472]

@@DanCoffeehe didn’t say it was… he sang it though

[@foxyboiiyt3332]

They as in the band brought this amazing song to a much larger audience

[@DanCoffee]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Old_Town @@Kevo9t9

[@remylc6594]

another popular voice, who made this song worldwide known, who passed away R.I.P

[@philbarber4348]

RIP Shane, a unique talent. Hope they have Guinness in heaven

[@shanedjoy8954]

He loved a Dublin Guinness. Met him a couple of times down Camden Town, a boozer just down from McDonald’s used to sell it. All from Park Royal now…

[@silentfisher67]

And wiskey in the jar

[@mylenemarti5983]

A pint of the black and a shot of J.

[@JustaSideOrderOfLove]

YOU BET THEY DO! ❤ 😊

[@cathymccd]

Can you imagine the sing songs now with sinead o Connor,kirstie, Ronnie drew the dubliners and many more.

[@ShaunDavies-ds9om]

Mum passed away recently and this was played at her wake. Everyone was singing along. Rip mum rip Shane x

[@chanyphilly8266]

May your mum rest in peace mate x

[@SezrahSylvan]

Sorry for your loss ❤

[@jc-16.]

They say that, shaun Davies mum , Is six month's dead, But that can't be true, Because even though she's A soul I never knew, when I sing dirty old town, I can hear her voice, ringing through And none are truly dead, That we remember, So think of her in summers warmth And fresh mornings In cold December,

[@sadies2820]

@@jc-16. That's a beautiful thought.

[@dondamon4669]

Your mum had a good soul to choose this song

[@camembertdalembert6323]

I am a 49 year old french person. When I was a teenager I was a fan of The Pogues. When I started making my own money by working during holiday periods, Rhum, Sodomy and the Lash was one of the very first CD I ever bought. Rest in peace Shane.

[@ericclemson5263]

For me, it was one of my first cassettes! And still one of my favourites.

[@rosabilly]

47 year old German. My first boyfriend played this song for me in 1992, in Dresden, former East Germany. Then it was a dirty old town. And I felt the change in my body, in my town and in the world. RIP Shane.

[@nicolasmarchal804]

Je suis vosgiens et j habite en irlande et cette chanson m a fait rever Avant d etre ici.... Merci macgowan

[@walcibiade1635]

Les ravages de l'alcool...

[@mylenemarti5983]

​@@walcibiade1635 so what ...

[@angellacanfora]

I've been crying all day. The Pogues music literally altered the course of my life, sent me on a journey that saw me taking up mandolin and learning traditional Irish music, inspiring me to move to Cork City, Ireland for a spell, to learn more about my ancestral homeland. None of that would have happened without Shane's brilliant music. RIP Shane.

[@StLProgressive]

I started listening to traditional Irish music and loving my heritage because of them too. I haven’t made it over there yet, unfortunately. So sad about the news today. 😓💚🙏🏻

[@geraldmcmahon4118]

Same with me - played the accordion again from my youth 😢

[@NikoHL]

Welcome home Angela 🍻

[@patriciaoneill8053]

Good luck hope all goes well 💚

[@patriciaoneill8053]

Hope all goes well for you ❤

[@zatoichihanzo9167]

30.11.23 Tonight I wil get some whisky, play your records, sing aloud, cry with joy, and get drunk in your honor. Thanks for all the poetry and music, Shane. Rest in peace

[@silentfisher67]

A pare of brown eyes❤

[@TheSuperKozak]

I already started with two or three....

[@laurarogers6438]

Sláinte! I'm the same and I'm sure we certainly won't be alone tonight in saluting this legend.

[@patrickkish2931]

I start at 10:00 this morning😢

[@corneliakonschake1027]

Trink einen für mich mit, ich bin weg davon

[@infinitepossibility]

This song makes me cry. All the lives lived, the aspirations, the romances, and the mundane everyday doldrum - all of it lived out in forgotten and neglected corners of the world... it all rings clear in my mind when this song plays. God bless.

[@41corsair]

Nicely stated couldn’t agree more you must have an Irish soul

[@Honda-wf6qj]

Aye....

[@jamesmason8436]

​@@41corsairthis is an English folk song about an English city, Salford.

[@CariocaCaravaggio]

❤

[@smakcanada]

Written by Kirsty MavColl’d father. RIP Shane & Kristy ) who died saving her son’s life).

[@Ruminator]

This song is about my grandad's hometown, Salford, and it's meant a lot to me over the years. Shane made it his own. We've lost a beautiful poet. May his rest in peace.

[@CESR-]

Am pretty sure it's a song about Glasgow, but it's irrelevant RIP Shane 😢🍀

[@MaileyMcAslan]

Salford 👍 Rest now, Shane and thank you ❤

[@abraxasjinx5207]

I didn't know that it was a cover. It's one of my favorite Pogues songs.

[@MaileyMcAslan]

@@abraxasjinx5207 i didn’t know it was a cover either!

[@jean-pierrebernigaud8130]

Nous avons tous notre dirty old town… Thanks dear Shane

[@briankelly5272]

A true Irish man that sang songs with heart. RIP 💚

[@patrickfarrell5092]

I believe he was English.

[@pmc237]

​@@patrickfarrell5092only by birth

[@tonymaurice4157]

R.I.P God bless. Legend!!

[@sineadcoombs1045]

@@patrickfarrell5092English by birth, Irish by blood. Both parents were Irish.

[@marmc358]

@@patrickfarrell5092 Shane was born in England, the son of Irish immigrants.

[@Mr.Hand541]

My mom sang this to me almost every night growing up. RIP Shane

[@ianjordan5532]

That's brilliant 👏🏼

[@peterdonaldson5967]

My dad worked in the mines in scotland and sadly died age 57 and always said to me and my brother never ever work underground. So proud of him to this day of doing such a hard unforgiving job to keep us all as young kids

[@janetcryer887]

Men did what they had to do to feed their families.

[@michaelchurchill3589]

Probably one of the toughest jobs on earth, they are only lately getting decent pay, and they had to fight to get mine safety and better wages

[@mam8982]

Heroes come in all shapes and sizes.

[@coralhammond3100]

Your Dad is a legend. Never doubt, he must have truly loved you all.❤ be proud!

[@KevinHealey-k3t]

😂​@@mam8982

[@albertadriftwood3612]

Not many factories left anymore. I worked in some as a young man. It was deafening, brutal and dirty for the most part, but there always seemed to be one or two pretty young girls about to notice. One winter's late afternoon day I got up the nerve to ask a certain girl if I could walk her home. It was getting dark by then. Somewhere along the way she took my hand and held it until we got to her door. Nothing ever came of it, but holding that sweet girl's hand, whose life was no better than mine, was one of the greatest thrills of my long life. This song reminded me of it.

[@gerardwhite2689]

I worked in factories all my stinking brutal places with hard work and harder men they suck the life out of you then cast you out your youth and hopes gone forever fuck them forever

[@vampmode9132]

God bless you brother

[@cilliankenny9706]

God bless you all

[@gerardwhite2689]

I worked in factories in Coventry as a young man your right they were dirty smelly brutal places you had to grow up quickly or get stomped on I saw it all accidents fights there was no such thing as health and safety you took your chance and you carried if you didn't you got no money at the end of the week when your wages were paid in cash we all queud up like robots waited for your weekly wage

[@deanwindridge896]

Beautiful story

[@goddessraven2128]

Someone who’s voice made you extra proud to be Irish🍀RIP Shane🍀

[@ianjenkins5389]

Unlike that certain gentleman who is your country's boss man.

[@jeabphuket]

Not bad coming from London eh!!!!

[@josipjagusic7692]

Počivao u miru i svjetlost vječna neka ti svjetli! Hvala za pjesme kojima si uljepšao svijet! 🇭🇷

[@jamesbueker11]

Just got back to Belgrade after 7 years in Texas. It’s still a dirty old town where I met my love. My memories are all good.

[@AlisonNoon-r7x]

This song was played at my grandads funeral last week 😢 you are so loved and truly missed. RIP my beautiful grandad ❤❤❤

[@leetushingham5277]

Bless you mate

[@AlisonNoon-r7x]

@@leetushingham5277 thank you 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@leetushingham5277]

Your very welcome chin up mate 👍

[@Sheryl-s6o]

I imagine he was a real character! God bless 🙂

[@blueskies8939]

Condolences, love.

[@bartoncourcier414]

Definitely shedding some tears today. I feel like I grew up with Shane and the Pogues during my college years. Making beer every week and getting fluthered listening to the Pogues with friends. Saw them at the Wiltern in LA when Joe Strummer stood in for him. I finally got a chance to see him in San Francisco many years later. He didn't disappoint. May his soul rest peacefully.

[@RustyNail-gv2by]

Amazing mate! Hold those memories, I'm jealous!

[@WeeleyTube]

That's such a cool story Strummer standing in and then and Shane at a later date? Imagine something like that today, impossible, they don't do it for the fans like that anymore.

[@kevinruggiero8773]

I’m a grown ass 45 year old man and cried like a baby listening to this song. Found them in the early 90s. RIP brother. This is music!

[@brianbarrett1177]

This mans voice brings out emotions I didn't know I had. RIP Shane.

[@LPJack02]

RIP Shane MacGowan (December 25, 1957 - November 30, 2023), aged 65 You will be remembered as a legend.

[@frereanaktom99]

i don't think shane is reading the comments. he's dead. I liked him and his music but i don't expect to meet him here.

[@CarlVogler]

​@@frereanaktom99you're a goose mate

[@CountvonCount33]

@@CarlVogler There's always one A-hole wherever ya go! 🤷‍♂

[@languedo]

I"m french, but really, i"m so, so , so sad.... ...RIP Shane , now you are an angel in paradise ! Long live Ireland as free as you always wanted!

[@lordofglencoe7084]

Sometimes, during a family meal my father was taking his harmonica and me my guitar ... he has been gone since 2017 and every time I listen to this song , my throat tightens and tears come ... Life is only memories ...

[@fightingforcatalonia]

Cherish these memories. Beautiful scottish highlands

[@augustusgurtler4388]

a fraction of life is memories. The ratio of old to new grows larger with every day. I remember my 70 year old grandmother scanning the obituaries... which she had stopped by her death at 99 still sharp as a tack, she just didn't know anyone outside family anymore. I am sorry for your loss .

[@gerardorodas1854]

greetings from Mexico, we thank the brave Irish that fought and died with us defending my country against American invasion.

[@leewilliam9767]

I feel for you my dad looked like the legend lol and it always gets me merry Christmas

[@beno2662]

“Life is only memories” well said my friend🤝

[@Havendukdalf2]

I'm a Dutchman and a big fan Shane, will never forget him, he turned things upside down during his concerts. RIP.

[@luripu]

I was Punk,Gothic,Skinhead in the 80s but on every party we played this song. Farwell i will never forget you. R.I.P.

[@billweldon2434]

Me and my niece Kate have listened to this since she was little now she's 12 and I'm 52 threw God's grace ..

[@markanthony284]

A Poet, Writer, Lyricist, Singer, Rebel, and all round man of his convictions .......... God Bless you mate

[@livvysmith3271]

Many tears will be shed for you Shane. Thank you for sharing your beautiful mind and lyrics with us

[@ellenzijlstra6305]

In the eighties as a poor student I bought the Pogues album "If I should fall from grace with God" purely based on seeing the album cover in a shop, reasoning that with all the musical instruments used it must be good value for money. And it was! I have been a big fan of The Pogues ever since

[@petebrooks1223]

I went to a Pogues party at the University of Waterloo in 88. We all got blind drunk and sang til we lost our voices. Irish or not, boyo, we all love ya Shane. Rest your rebel soul, you arshole.

[@JACKnJESUS]

Shane did think about fixing his teeth. None other than Julie Andrews contacted him and told him NOT to do it. She had her teeth done, and it changed her singing voice. The mouth has its own acoustics. Pogue mahone!

[@stevemann3080]

100 % CORRECT 👍👍

[@melcody5253]

If I remember correctly, Joe Strummer from the The Clash (like there's another Joe Strummer!) had the same issue with his teeth. He had them fixed and couldn't get the same sound, I believe he had them "fixed" back

[@JACKnJESUS]

@@melcody5253 Makes sense. To put it into stereo terms...your mouth is the "room". Change the room...change the sound.

[@moominpic]

@jollytunes I think he had to. The bone was crumbling.

[@MrRekarbenots]

i had alcohol/heroin neglected teeth. not crooked but became gnarly early. had all of my teeth extracted at 35. it changed my voice for the better. I used to have an awkward, half-a-note-off, semi-deep voice that just rankled. now it's quite full and rich, but only with my dentures out. with them in it sounds worse than before.

[@ElPresidente88]

RIP You absolute legend. Christmas will never be the same knowing the man who sang the single greatest Christmas song is no longer with us.

[@deflatedfruit4716]

I remember finding a Pogues CD in a car park when i was a kid. I took it home and cleaned it and this was one of the songs on it. Never thought I'd be able to find it again, but here it is.

[@TheGrrson]

Glad you found it.

[@heavnnnsent]

Synchronicity! My mom used to say everything happens for a reason but at the time I was pretty skeptical about that

[@fabiomorando459]

😊

[@tonybrown8006]

This is a great album.

[@shirleyvmaui]

A poet from his heart and to the bone. It's a painful loss for us, but I hope you can feel our love from the other side❤️😢❤️

[@masadarico7412]

J'ai 51a et je viens aussi d'une Dirty Old Town d'un bassin industriel "John Cockerill" en Belgique... J'étais ado dans les 80s et heureux d'avoir vécu ces années avec tous ces artistes comme The Pogues ! Ce 02 Décembre 2023... R.I.P Shane 🕊️

[@danielknowles8760]

Just a highly talented unique Singer, they dont make them like him anymore. RIP Shayne ♥

[@RustyNail-gv2by]

Definitely, and sounded like where he came from. Rare breed.

[@AnonAnonAnon]

Memories of this.... stationed in Belfast as British soldier, and dating a Catholic girl who lived in Holywood. This would always be on the jukebox in the Seaside Tavern and we'd sit inside listening, drinking, cuddling whilst the mayhem of Belfast went on outside a few miles away in the wind and rain. I associate Belfast with this song. Great memories.

[@NosajKnows]

Glad you enjoyed it lol

[@gerryguinn3175]

Free the monk

[@jimmyjazz1570]

Ha ha been there mate with a prot from Black Mountain Way ... My Grandfather was from Cork City, did his bit in 14 - 18, stayed on as the Army of Occupation in Germany till the early 20's, came home saw what a load of BS the Civil war and Free State created, including acts by his younger brothers , kissed his Ma Goodbye ' and moved to London 2 RGJ - S & B

[@SlurpyDave254]

Actually a song about Salford, gtr Manchester

[@michaeltaylor6782]

What has this song got to do with ireland? It's about salford.

[@simonshepherd34]

Love this. It could be about any town during the deindustrialisation of the late 70s to early 90s and those of us who grew up in that era. Pure genius.

[@stephenhill5131]

I gave up the booze 6 months ago, but I'll be raising a zero alcohol Guinness for Shane tonight. This is my boys favourite song. They always ask me to play it. They're 2 & 3 and are currently bopping around my living room to it. RIP 🕊 you were a legend!

[@SeanCallaghan-o8b]

Fair play for giving up the alcohol pal

[@johncollins4402]

Keep sober buddy.nearly 2 years sober myself now.i know it's not easy.good luck.

[@brendansheerin8980]

The zero alcohol Guinness is brilliant

[@kristofermontgomerie144]

Any tips brother? Cocaine addict here, and fucking hate it and myself.

[@johncollins4402]

@@kristofermontgomerie144 it will change so much.Quiting.For me it was,stop lying to myself.Takung responsibility for every moment from now.But you stop hating yourself.

[@santiagobenites]

RIP Shane MacGowan, and thanks for all of the wonderful music.

[@solo-rv6si]

What's marvelous about this song and the Pogues is that they could rise up to sublime quality out of misery and the mundane.

[@Starlight7079]

This song always gives me chills. R.I.P, you fine Irish trabadour! We will never see his like again.

[@claudiagamboa3230]

Thank you, Shane, for the amazing work you left & for all the good times spent listening to you. God speed!

[@NickGoo-j2u]

RIP Shane, one of the heroes of my youth, forever in my pantheon and in my heart and immortal through the art you have given us. Love from Italy.

[@user97382]

I heard this song in Dublin during St Patrick's Day this year. It was played in literally every pub and I falled in love with it. 💚🍀🇮🇪 I'm very sad to read in the comment section that the singer of this great song died some months before. R. I. P 😢

[@ИренаОгнянова-с1ю]

You will always bring tears in my eyes with your songs - tears of full love and happiness! RIP, a Giant!

[@rossgage9730]

"May the wind that blows from haunted graves Never bring you misery May the angels bright Watch you tonight And keep you while you sleep

[@ob1415]

Is it Blake?

[@rossgage9730]

@@ob1415 Lullaby of London

[@ob1415]

@@rossgage9730 Thanks! Salutations from France.

[@peterdonaldson5967]

My dad sadly gone at a young 57 but never forgotten for the hard work to provide for his family

[@dimitristimplalexis8694]

Πόσα χρόνια με συνόδευσες, ποσα ταξιδια, πραγματικά και νοητά έκανα μαζί σου, παντα ταπεινός και λυρικός σε οτι έγραψες...γειά σου για πάντα Shane,

[@cathymeys7648]

Merci pour tout ces bons moments à vous écouter que du bonheur 💓 Rip Shane

[@alwaysfourfun1671]

First time I heard from the Poques was that they would warm up for Bob Dylan in the Greek theatre, Berkely, CA, 1989. For some reason they had lost all their instruments. They borrowed what they could and started playing. Unforgettable! Their art remains wonderful after all those years! What a giants.

[@colingallagher4848]

I graduated from high school in 1989. I think someone said they had a great old time and the great old time they had before the show led to instruments being lost. But they found others and played anyway.

[@alwaysfourfun1671]

@Fire TV So nice to hear about the "compassion" between our heroes.

[@Pauly421]

They were probably totally wasted and lost them lol.

[@chrisbb8375]

Memories of my trip to Ireland when I was 15. A Frenchman who loved the Pogues. RIP Shane

[@cryptolights6879]

I just heard and immediately came to see him sing this masterpiece. His voice will last forever!

[@budweiserthedog4449]

You came into my head tonight and I have to listen to you. Brilliant, beautiful, timeless song, thank you Shane and thank you The Pogues. God Bless You All X

[@gammal586]

One of the most beautiful songs ever. Love from Sweden.

[@rael1999]

Written by Ewan MacColl and it's about his home town Salford, Lancashire in 1949.

[@paulgoebertp]

Thanks for the unforgettable hours of wild fun and communal spirit that your music and writing brought to me.

[@ginieleclerc6268]

Chanson mémorable ❤️ Quand j'entends cette chanson Un sourire me vient aux lèvres Le temps de l'insouciance Le temps du bien-être Un temps, vieux temps

[@LadyBird791]

Oh que oui 😢

[@michaelkael9006]

pas facile de pas etre nostalgique...en effet.

[@moha5007]

No glitz, make-up, from his heart, a real man n singer.

[@DazzaBo]

My grandfather was born and raised in Salford before shipping off to France at the age of 17 to fight in the second world war. After being captured by the Germans twice and escaping twice he was hidden by the French and Belgian resistance for more than 4 years, at great expense to themselves. The town he was hiding in was eventually liberated and he was sent back home to Salford. Maybe being back home was too much for him after the war but he moved to Australia shortly after and raised a family over here. He passed away last year at the ripe old age of 98. I can't hear the opening harmonica of this song without immediately tearing up thinking about him.

[@danmcgrath7129]

God Love 'em.

[@davemustabstain7093]

May he rest in peace.

[@golem3080]

nice story Mark, my grandpa was in Wehrmacht and he also loved Pogues, he died almost 30 years ago but I guess no one likes to hear his side of the story

[@TheLoxapac]

@@golem3080 i would like to hear it. My gand dad was in th the first foreign cavalry regiment , 5th armored div, 1st free french army, from 1942 to 46', and he had a lot of respect for german soldiers. May we never be at war again.

[@gui18bif]

And now the people he fought for want to delete old towns and replace them with globo-topias.

[@Zxcshehwehdjwkdjcj]

Rest in peace to a legend. thanks for lovely music, Shane.

[@CaesarInVa]

This song means so much to me, more than I could ever confide or express. When I was a young man with a full-head of hair and a straight spine i would pick up my girlfriend after she worked her shift as a bartender at a local bar in Old Town, Alexandria, VA. This was back around 1984. On those torpid, steaming-hot summer nights, i would lean up against the red-brick wall while I waited for her and let the still-warm bricks warm my back and whistle this song. Oh, to be 24 again, with life strung out ahead of me like an endless highway, mom and dad there to confide in if things went askew and Tina, my precious bartender/ballerinia waiting for me after work.

[@mimlo7534]

You're a poet!!

[@CaesarInVa]

That's very kind of you, but I doubt if Tina or anyone else shares your opinion! Still, thank you all the same.

[@711stevieray]

lived in dc, van doren st, area as which spoke of you did....many a great times, & fun Music nights back in the day, was there bout the same time, & there is only 1, old-town Alexandria....was there I was.....good post,...:)

[@CaesarInVa]

Thanks Steve. Looks like I'll be seeing OT again, sooner than I expected when I wrote that comment. My wife and I are going back to visit family for Xmas and I think I'm going to stay there (my wife's company transferred her down to Houston two years ago and I've been out of work ever since so I figure if I'm going to be unemployed, it ought to be someplace where I can find work). Really looking forward to drinking a beer at Murphy's, or a bowl of Seafood Stew in the Fish Market. Winter in Old Town, friggin awesome!!!

[@zenhaelcero8481]

Brilliant memory. What ever happened to you and Tina? I have to know.

[@marcosepe9956]

The perfect singer for this song no one can sing it like you did Shane... Rest in peace Man and may the Pints, and Whiskey poor eternally for you in Heaven. Rock and Roll never Forgets.

[@Nephilimfields]

Just heard about Shane's passing. RIP, sir. Thank you for the great music.

[@lizgraham9986]

I grew up in Halifax, Yorkshire. We used to go into Manchester alot. Always thought it was a dirty old town, never went to Salford but couldn't imagine it's any cleaner than Manchester. I love it though it's history. The north has a proud industrial Hertiage that drove the industrial revolution. You gotta be proud of these dirty places that changed the course of human history.

[@glennsouthan9091]

From brighouse myself

[@rinobisesto3705]

Salford was even worst than Manchester. In the early 70s, when I used to go there every summer from Southern Italy for some strange case of destiny, every single wall was totally smoked, red bricks were black, iron bridges ruined, many factories just abandoned. Empty spaces everywhere walking to Old Trafford from the Precinct, through Ordsall and the docks area. Just beautiful to me: I fell in love with Salford and Manchester. And United of course. Now I'm almost 60, the twin cities changed a lot, and I still love them. Dirty old town...

[@jackwhiteley1348]

@@rinobisesto3705 SAlFORD! ❤️

[@lucystrauss2989]

My mom & me loved this song! It’s so reflective of hard times.I always thought it was about a mining or factory town. Then we moved to a place in Australia & it suited there also, so many dead end towns full of red dust & smog. This song is a true masterpiece!

[@waynerooney08]

its about my city salford the gas works wall is around the corner from my house so is the canal

[@dondamon4669]

It's not his song! Rod Stewart done it fi

[@suecollins1991]

I named one of my guinea pigs Pogue Mahone, for reasons good; had to have him put to sleep yesterday. Id sing this song while holding him, sang it for him one last time yesterday. Pogue, hope wherever you are in the hereafter you meet up with Shane McGowan and he can sing it to you in my place!!! A great song.

[@R_Arizona]

Sorry to hear that. I have to put my dog down tomorrow. It sux.

[@suecollins1991]

​@R_Arizona sorry for you, losing a good pet is never easy.

[@geertcortenbosch7923]

Had an half hour chat with shane in 1995 at window rock, belgium, I will never forget this

[@olivermoynihan9804]

Your music and lyrics kept me going through the good times and bad..Thanks Shane

[@LashyYT]

Just had this song in my dads funeral because he loved this song so much it means so much to me this song does

[@DarkAngel-qy9oi]

Lashy YT sorry for your loss...hugs

[@lois4911]

i had in my dads too mate.... brings back so many memories. R.I.P dad x

[@tomnevo4526]

Rip

[@ginger1531]

Rest in paradise🙏🙏

[@deanwindridge896]

God bless you all

[@andrewheaney6858]

What a fitting tribute to a genuinely true Scotsman, thank you so much Ed, RIP Alex here tae you pal Slainte 🥃🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@Dreamyliamyy]

RIP, a punk a poet and an Irishman 💔🕊

[@jayjaynella4539]

That harmonica playing sends goosebumps and shivers up and down my body in waves. Oh man. I wonder what Charlie McCoy would say about that opening harmonica, I bet even he would have goose bumps all over.

[@christiemary976]

This song reminds me of beautiful days and good memories, i love it.

[@VelvetViolator]

+Christie Mary Same over here. Greetings! :-)

[@Mike_oxlong213]

+Christie Mary me too i agree. it reminds me of the old good times.

[@bobbyruscoe8683]

so do I. I'm a salfordian it's about our tow

[@mpearson1987]

+Christie Mary Yes me too, as it's now spring, it reminds me of times past. Beautiful times with a beautiful person I love much.

[@drewa4325]

+Christie Mary It makes me more miserable than anything. I usually listen to this song during really bad times though.

[@tinatakach8727]

So sorry to only have discovered Shane after his passing. Rest in Eternal Peace...love Dirty old Town.

[@davorrodic2723]

R.i.p.Shane.Hvala za sve pjesme lijepa Irska muzika.Blagoslov božji neka te prati .Croatia.

[@mickharper3980]

Absolute legend rip Shane your voice will sing forever

[@ernesto1391]

It's amazing that honest music like this still gets recorded. This is a working class tune. REAL BABY , LOVE IT

[@corneliakonschake1027]

❤ eine warme Stimme, die alles was ich liebe vereinen konnte: Irish Folk, Punk, Melancholie und er hatte ein großes Herz. Leider war er in der Drogenhölle gefangen. Ein Rebell, Idol, Revolutionär, großer Musiker, Freund und Familienmensch. So schön die Filme zu sehen, die gerade über ihn laufen. Selbst die Beerdigung ist immer meine Einschlafhilfe. Egal in welcher Band er war, immer ein Genie. Ich vermisse dich, Shane. Nun geht einer nach dem anderen aus der verruchten Szene- wiederum läuft in jedem Krimi Punk. Ob Ramones, Chlash oder Pistoles. Punk stirbt nie und meine Kinder sind damit groß geworden 🌹🌹🌹

[@StefanBauer-iw4cf]

Ein ganz Grosser ist gegangen

[@hellgreg4724]

J' ai toujours les larmes quand j' écoute cette chanson. Merci Shane RIP😢👃🍺🍻🇮🇪🥃🥃

[@jennycotterell7818]

Who gives a shit about looks or teeth when you can evoke this emotion and sing with such beauty

[@richardmorrison9928]

His teeth are great now ... who cares most underated poet i can think of his lyrics are unreal on some songs

[@juliamhandley271]

I think he s fucking great Bad teeth and all xx

[@rocky7173]

So right love from IRELAND🍀🍀🍀🍀🙋

[@galleran2640]

i hear thet song every day when i drive to work

[@kebecers66]

I have the same mouth from my birth and its just toughen me up and kept superficial people away

[@MorganCelt1888]

RIP Shane MacGowan. One of the very few who weve lost to have made me shed a tear 🍀

[@officialjbbeverley]

I met Shane in NYC in 1998. He was one of the real ones. God rest his gentle soul. My heart breaks today. Much love, mate.

[@Jahbellyfull]

This is so beautiful I can hardly find words to express how much I love this, this song means a lot to me!!

[@NorryJones-kg1se]

Really tallented punk ( oi ? Like " Titanic '? /.)

[@trisha7162]

I think so many of us have lived this song

[@D.R.Garrett]

He got me through so much heartache and loneliness in my twenties. So strange. I have been listening to the Pogues for the last few weeks now and before that it had been over a decade and now I find out today he has passed on to the other side...Long live Shane..

[@malcwalker8565]

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 going to 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

[@patmiddleton3947]

Malc Walker poetry

[@rocco...]

Sounds like he says "I'll chop you down like an old Dutch tree". As in a Dutch elm.

[@burntoak9377]

I wish they'd stick to the original Ewan MacColl lyrics; "Salford wind" not "smoky wind", after all MacColl wrote it about his hometown Salford. Still sung by Salford City FC and Man United fans.

[@jackcarter2303]

“The first verse refers to the gasworks croft, which was a piece of open land adjacent to the gasworks 53°28′50″N 2°16′36″W, and then speaks of the old canal, which was the Manchester, Bolton & Bury Canal.” So, the original was “I found my love by the gasworks croft.” Sounds better to my ear.

[@JohnDoherty-b2b]

Lived his life by his own rules a legend sadly missed thank God for KZbin he now lives on forever happy New year everyone

[@Phyrexian_Doom]

Rest easy in peace man . Great song , changed my life . Thanks buddy 🙏

[@bettersali]

RIP Shane and thank you for your music!

[@joyholt4519]

Anyone whoever grew up poor, working and in love. Dirty old town. Merry Christmas. 2017

[@ShanOakley]

grew up poor and ate the best peanut butte and jam sandwiches

[@crystalcull1373]

MERRY CHRISTMAS 2019 YAYYYYY

[@crystalcull1373]

@@ShanOakley i am today Happy n warm n safe though lol

[@tirsahingalls2776]

Yep. Still poor. Still working. Married and have a beutiful daughter.

[@RatsburyRaven74]

Right there with you brother...

[@KG-mt4mo]

Sometimes the most creative and brilliant people drink a lot just to cope with life because they feel things so deeply. I love Shane and I love Brendan Behan... and on that note, I raise a toast to them both!

[@marquee6]

Karyn Grey Noah was a drunk and look what he did.😃

[@emilyfriedl8640]

tytytyty

[@johngilmore6525]

Sadly, this is true. Sometimes it's more than coping with pain or loss. I got sober 6 years ago, thinking things will get better. They rapidly became worse. I no longer write, I don't talk or leave the house except to work. My sense of humor is gone. Turns out I have extreme anxiety and ADHD, which most doctors and psych. will only treat one of the two conditions. One condition sets the other condition off. What really sucks is that there are millions of people out there that have it way worse.

[@KG-mt4mo]

I’m so sorry, John… I think you are right that so many people struggle with this.. and I feel badly in retrospect that I made such a flippant comment a few years ago when it is such a struggle.. I guess everyone is trying to find that balance of how to cope with life.. my best to you and all of us who are doing our best to get by xoxo

[@johngilmore6525]

I didn't really view your comment in any harmful way. I used to be very creative myself and have about ten novels started that never got much further than character development, ideas and maybe a chapter or two. Hell, feelings I have trouble coping with in general as well. I made it sound as if getting sober was a bad thing. It's damn hard. I just was expecting slightly different results. In fact, Chris Cornell and Chester struggled with addiction, but something deeper was underneath. I believe studies have actually backed your point in the science world. I took no harm or even looked at your comment that way. I wanted to be a writer or journalist and never finished college due to alcohol, which was basically self medication, but I wasn't aware of the fact until decades later.

[@flannerymonaghan-morris4825]

RIP to both Shane (1957-2023), and the writer of this song, Ewan MacColl (1917-1989). May both of them be singing songs together in heaven.

[@rael1999]

Rest in peace Shane lad...Being born in a mill town in Lancashire (now greater Manchester for some reason) I can relate to this song so much. Wonderful version by Shane and the lads. Gods Speed.

[@leeclarke2317]

I’m a Lancashire lad. Born in Oldham.

[@angelamcdermott7605]

​@@leeclarke2317Same, a Lancashire Lass, born and bred in Oldham.

[@FrancisLebeau-gg2he]

Extraordinaire chanson avec deux chanteurs à la voix magnifique et surtout dans une ambiance conviviale et joyeuse rempli d une joie de vivre ensemble ❤❤

[@Mary_b]

RIP, Shane. May the angels meet you. 👼 Condolences to his wife, sister, dad, and fellow bandmates.

[@SquireJumy]

Their intro to this auld tune is the reason I picked up a harmonica, and can now pay the mortgage with a tune. RIP Shane, thanks for spreading joy.

[@jingalls9142]

For years this was kind of a social barometer for me I used it when I was going out on dates. If the girl liked the song usually it was a good indication that we were going to have fun together. A long time ago I've played this for my wife before we were married and almost immediately she said "Oh I love The Pogues". I guess that explains part of the reason we're still together...this one's to you my dear Miss Galloway.

[@mikericardo112]

A girl who likes the Pouges could go either way. Kind of like a girl who smokes Newport reds. She might b tougher than yourself. I'm glad it worked out mate 🍻

[@GreatPolishWingedHussars]

One of the best comments I've ever read!

[@StefanMedici]

Your wife's a keeper.

[@ianjames7004]

For us it was, Year of the Cat.

[@lordtachanka903]

I’m gonna start using that, thanks for the tip mate!

[@desmondmayhew6466]

Wow. 3 years ago . I followed you for not long ENOUGH by sounds of it . ❤ perfect talent . Hello from over the pond in ENGLAND . My Very favourite Gospel family on you tube . My Late Father would Fling a Boot and dance . Thank you .xx

[@jeromelemarchand3727]

RIP ! Une pensée de terre Celte, sur le sol de France, la Bretagne ne t'oubliera pas Shane ! Vive l'Irlande et la musique Celtique !

[@joemay2640]

Shane has a voice like a freight train, pure raw talent, amazing.

[@paullynch4021]

I always felt this was about my dirty ol'town of Belfast... but I'm sure many people feel it's about their home towns. Rest in Peace Shane, ye'beautiful ol'poet ye.

[@joffc567]

It’s written about Salford

[@_Against_All_Gods_]

I live in what used to be a dirty town by a dirty river. Huge truck factory that went bust. I used to saw steel beams in one of many small factories/workshops that popped up on its premises. Definitely sounds like it's about my hometown.

[@manolistamiolakis863]

I came to know this song now that i had the chance to live for four weeks in Dublin. This was after, apparently, this man had passed away. And even though i did not know his story and gravitas it was bringing tears to my eyes and was reminding me my mother!

[@francisleclaire180]

J'ai toujours des frissons quand j'entends cette chanson par les Pogues. On sens l'Irlande dans toute sa splendeur. Je les ai vu 3 fois, dont une sans Shane. Il ont fait la première partie de U2 à l'hippodrome de Vincennes en 1987. Magnifique.

[@timoneill4347]

U2 blows. Still I love the comment. Your so lucky

[@yellowbelly2855]

This song was written by an Englishman about Salford, Manchester.