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  • Wish I could see The Dubliners live...

  • dubliners made me grew a beard

  • shut up irishrogue61mak2

  • do Irish people like singing English folk tunes?

  • @MsOneiroi77 Do English people like asking rhetorical questions?

    (Also, it's a "song" - a "tune" doesn't have words. ;) )

  • @DestroyYouAlot why do you like to ask rhetorical questions as an answer?

    Oh how very smart thinking that one up I see what you've done there

  • @MsOneiroi77 Seeing as this song is about Liverpool, and Liverpool is the "Capitol of Ireland" as anyone in the 'Pool" will verify, then why should Irish people not like singing about it?

  • @firstladypatricia seeing as this song is about Salford near Manchester and written about that city and buy a guy with no connection to Ireland you're running on automatic in your assumption.

  • @MsOneiroi77 Appreciate you correcting me. Whichever town it is it still sounds great!

  • @firstladypatricia Actually the song has nothing to do with Liverpool. It was written by Ewan MacColl (born in England but of a Scottish family) about his home town of Salford which is now part of Greater Manchester. Of course you are absolutely right though in that there is no reason why Irish people shouldn't enjoy signing it

  • That's Patsy Watchorn of The Dublin City Ramblers singing.

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  • Love this boys. They are great!!!

  • Okay reading the comments and i want to say who gives a fuck where the song was written okay ! its an amazing song written by a fantastic man and every person who has sang has done the absolute justice so please for the love of god stop !

  • they´re very old sac s

    

  • wtf...

  • salford,,,, :)

  • Give me a Guinness please bar lady, I'm about to do a jig.

  • I don't know why, but Irish music always makes me happy, sad, nostalgic and warm all at the same time.

  • I'm drunk, and this is bloody awesome,

  • I just goddamn like this!! Damn!!!

  • lovely great music ! Greats fron Germany

  • I haven´t found yet a single dubliners song that isn´t just simply awesome.

  • i like this song an so dose me pet weasel <3 <3

  • How the fuck can you dislike this song???

  • Really love this song

  • Back when signing was talent not a auto-tune machine

  • Dirty old cow .... you're a dirty old cow.

  • Evo još malo irske mjuze uz Dan Sv. Patricka!!!!!!

  • Like a goodly portion of Irish songs: it makes no sense, but it's awesome.

    (The other portion differs from this only in making sense ;)

    :)

  • @mashmusic11235 Mind it isn't actually an Irish song! It was written by Ewan McColl (father of Kirsty and husband of American folk singer Peggy Seeger). His real name was Jimmy Miller and he was born to Scottish parents in Salford, England. The dirty old town mentioned in the song is Salford itself.

  • @gaconnochie He wasn't married to Peggy, but they were long-term lovers in spite of his marriage to another woman.

  • @mashmusic11235 I think the song does make sense. He's saying that even in the urban slum environment of 1940s Salford people find love and beauty but that to make people's lives better it needs urban regeneration. When he says "I'll chop you down like an old dead tree" he's talking to the run down parts of Salford itself. There was then massive urban regeneration across all of Britain in the 1960s but it of course didn't cure all the country's ills.

  • the irish need wiping out

  • Noch einen Tanz sounds nothing like Dirty Old Town...

  • The 2 blondes would get it

  • those industrials towns are social engineered constructs

  • I'm pissed off as a northern irishman with plastic paddies and the equivalent loyalists thinking that it is cool to remember 1000 years of british oppression or whatever or that anyone at large in the world gives a shit about the war of words. just grow up and leave your playground rivalry somewhere fucking else.

  • @harrykee what about us welsh, the language we speak is the indigenous language of all britain south of the river clyde as stipulated by the romans. Yet we are on the periphery, ignored.

    Heddwch/ peace

  • @3tangle3 picts also spoke a variant of brythonic as seen in Aberdeen and Aberystwyth Aber meaning mouth of the river

  • my town, your town.OUR TOWN.......need I say more?

  • this is the most beautiful song ever =]

  • NOT an irish song at all

  • @seonidh NOT NOT an irish song at all either.

  • @anmvamp written in england by a man with scottish parents its as irish as i belong to london!

  • @seonidh I thought the song was "I Belong to Glasgow!!!" lol

  • @Villaininexile who are the british?? its a state made in 1707...it was never a culture, it is a business just like the british empire...dont be fooled by the pretty flag ;)

  • instead of factory walls it should be ocean wharves or factory's wharves.

  • @Villaininexile what about being northern irish and british and proud and loving the dubliners

  • @Villaininexile Nothing wrong with that!

  • Que musica mas hermosa, como me gustaria estrechar las manos de estos venerables personajes. DIOS los guarde.

  • The "Dirty Old Town" is Salford....written by Ewan McColl who was from Broughton. I'm finally going to see the Dubliners live in Salford in March....only been listening to them since 1968 when my Mum used to play their Seven Drunken Nights to me!

  • Greetings from a dirty old town in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. Fine version of a classic tune. Hank Williams and Woody Guthrie would be proud to call this their own.

  • Good old Englisli folk song nicked by the padies

  • I'm a wee proddy, but I love this band and this song , Must be the Irish blood in me .

  • IMO This song isn't Irish, Its For ALL working class people.

  • Coming home from the West of Ireland we always said "Here we are, back in Dirty Dublin. A big change from those days

  • I am from Manchester. . . a Great place but this song has Salford stamped all over it

  • Dublin in Dublin

  • It was a dirty old town but name me one were you were happier growing up - I can't and Salford was and is the best place ever

  • @gazza3337 feck off the place too be is margate so there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • SALFORD LANCASHIRE,RED ROSE COUNTY.

  • a little song about Salford ewen Mcewen

  • I've always loved this song

  • Pogues version is better

  • 01:21 YEAH - LETS ROCK !

  • they were never the same after luke died

  • its supposedly comes from a mining village in wales - but we dubliners have taken it to our hearts

  • @zaracof Its about Salford, outside Manchester

  • @zoso7889 TRUE FACT.

    :D

    it IS about Salford <3

  • @zaracof nope, its from Salford in Manchester / England

    (: i kissed my girl by the factory wall - is actually about a MILL in salford

    not a mining village

    hehe it was actually someone my dad knows father who wrote the song.

  • well for Christ's sake, ain't that nice.

  • 0:45 it gets better and better oG=

  • Just love their dance at 1:18 xD

  • Personally i love this version most ...i think patsy is an absolute legend. Got to meet him recently after a charity gig in Galway and hes the soundest bloke goin . Up the dubs:)

  • @SMartyn1000 I'm with you I like this ver the most.

  • cant help but sing a long x

  • peggy seeger,dirty old town,welcome to the lowry, salford,thanks r kid

  • good version.... but no were near as good as luke! ;)

  • i fair miss me hometown :(

  • Takes me back to the early 50's when I was a young cop patrolling the North Wall, and East wall at night. I can still hear the sounds of shunting trains and cry of scurrying cats. The smell of coal and coal fires.

    I have the Pogues version on disk and play it any time I'm on a long road trip.

    Thanks Andreas for this.

  • Takes me back to the early 50's when I was a young cop patrolling the North Wall, and East wall at night. I can still hear the sounds of shunting trains and cry of scurrying cats. The smell of coal and coal fires.

    I have the Pogues version on disk and play it any time I'm on a long road trip.

    Thanks Andreas for this

  • Irish pride!!!!

  • This is by far the best version of the song ;)

  • Ta se iontioch Ceol!

  • It reminds me my sweet years in ireland!

  • See the nice cover by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club!

  • Bleedin rappidatas!

  • i reckon you are right mr old git but they could have written this song about stoke on trent...... this is a dirty old town if ever there was one... cheersxxxx

  • thank god, salford oh old salford, ewan mcoll was writing about salford,not dublin,my old fella (god rest his soul) played this song when he got home from the worsley pub on tatton street in ordsall salford 5 , most weekends,my parents were from cork they told us this song was about r city, salford...

  • @MrOldknight You are 100% right sir :)

  • Regardless of who sings on The Dubs, they bear legends! Ronnie, Luke, Ciarán, Patsy and not to forget ALL others! True legends of Music, true legends of mankinds heart!

    God damn I love them!

  • Brilliant vocal for this song.

  • I love the Pogues version of this.

  • my girlfriends cool

  • SALFORD ,MANCHESTER

  • remindz me so much of me grandad r.i.p love u xxx

  • DUBLIN 4 THE SAM 2010

  • @IAidox -- with home town advantage and scoundrels on the hill blowing whistles that put the opposing team off (example against tyrone in the quarters at the weekend) you'd think dublin might have won something since 1995...let's see dublin get past the mighty rebels before you count your chickens.

    na reibiliúnaithe abu!

  • 13 years old, and lovin' it :)

  • Can some body tell me which town this song was written about , i always thought it was Belfast but ive since been told it was Dublin !

  • @DaveAmo It was written about an English town called Salford. Luke Kelly says it at the start of the song on some video on youtube :)

  • @DaveAmo Could be Liverpool, I remember the Spinners singing this 50 years ago.

    unfortunatly not often played by the original band.

  • love Dubliners but try Pogue version of this number :-)

  • Great version, very nice :-D

  • This is an awesome song!!!!! Ireland and the Dubliners forever!!!!!!!!!

  • I love this song and would like to play it live with a good driving drum beat. My band is a rock covers band and will not play this song. Boow hoow shall I dump them and start mi own band off ? haha. Check us out on here, type in revenge of the drumsticks. Im on as wigan drummer 2010.

  • @WIGANDRUMMER210,its about salford thats y they don,t want to play it by the way knocked u out of the challenge cup 9yrs n out yeah.was and still stand as royal scrachtings salford fan,,,

  • Going to see these legends again at vicar street in december... i know its still 6 months away but i cant feckin wait

  • Love it !!

  • a generation gone that we will never get back all we can do is appreciate the amazing music they left behind for the irish and the rest of the world

    enjoy.....

  • makes me think about my granddad :(

  • Einfach nur grandios, immer wieder=)

  • the guy on the guitar... LOL. i love the dubliners, so much better than lady gaga etc... :D <3

  • @AnnaTheEmoKid You dont have to do much to be better than lady gaga

  • Brilliant.

  • Awsome song and awsome band!!!!!!!

  • Immer wieder schön zu hören..

  • Beautiful.

  • WHAT A SONG

  • May your Path Rise & Your Enemies Be Far Behind You.

    Shine On*

  • probably anyone has his own memories and thoughts on this song.

  • Doesn't this song unite those of us brought up in such towns; Manchester, Leeds Liverpool, Hull etc. British or Irish? People are the same - governments divide.

  • @ Lumbago12 das wäre schön, aber leider denken nicht alle so...

  • @cedricbeyerh Danke. Mein Deutsch ist sehr arm, aber ich denke, dass ich verstand! (hope that this makes the sense it is intended to!)

  • @lumbago12 agree 100%,brought up in belfast as a proddy!!

  • @lumbago12 i agree...we are all one species...only problem is why should one culture suffer at the hands of another....maybe its just natural selection and all that...but just doesnt feel right :)

  • Great song,remembers me on the late Luke Kelly.

    Amazing band!!!

    Lov it

  • who wants to sing about dingle yorkshire........

  • einfach super!

  • This kind of music is so nice... remind me when I went to Ireland 3 years ago, wonderful land...

  • why do folks say this is a irish song . as far as i know it is a english song about mill towns in yorkshire .

  • @yorkshiretractors - This superb song was written to cover a scene-change in a play which was set in Salford, Lancashire.

  • @TheRushie1982 no that cant be right . it must be yorkshire. who would owt about  lancashire . all best from yorkshire

  • @yorkshiretractors It is. It's about Salford.

  • god i miss ronnie drew

  • Every time i walk along the streets in my hometown i hear this song in my head:-)

  • Howya HUNGREDHEAD,

    his name is patsy watchorn, he was with the dublin city ramblers but joined the dubliners in 05...the guy is an absolute legend, what a version of this song

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  • whats the guys name singing this .anyone help

    joe

  • Patsy Watchorn.. He has a website..

  • dirty old tooown =) I'm gonna sing it with my dad *lol*

  • love this song. the band that was in work on sunday did a cover and oh my god its was brill so it was. now i haven't stopped listening to the Dubliners since!! :)

  • wow absolutely fantastic omfg

  • Love This Song, Use To Sing it at School When I Was About 8, The Great Melody + Lyrics Have Stayed With Me, the Other Song I Remember from This Time Was Morning Has Broken by Cat Stevens!, Thanx for Uploading this Clip.

  • This Was My Granpappys Favorite, He Would Always Sing It After He Had A Few Beers....

  • <3 The first song I learnt ... T Y

  • i love this song!

  • makes me think about my childhood (.

    <3

  • 2:48

    amazing

  • 0:45 wow

  • the horse to the right? or the beauty to the left?

  • definitely the one to the left:)

  • @htc1973 lol ok

  • Don't be cruel !

  • I know it was unfair but gosh she should really go see a dentist.

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  • "Dirty Old Town" is a song written by Ewan MacColl in 1949 that was made popular by The Dubliners.

  • @tomhamilton8 hows it gaun

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  • ya daft piece of shit learn your facts before spouting such bullshit.........

  • Ah come on and calm down you are ruining our good mood here.

  • What about, a song about an English town,written by a Scot ( yeah I know he was born in England but I'm trying to keep the peace here) and made famous round the world by the Irish.

  • love it so much <3

    and tomhamilton8 you spelled stupid wrong

  • staus quo done a good version i tink

  • Et bien moi, j'adore cette chanson, mais je la préfère par les Pogues...

    A bon entendeur... salut!!!

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  • im getting confused here. In the comment below you say how is this song about Salford in England then say irish. So i was just telling you where it comes from. Like i said it was a play called landscape of chimneys. i didnt say you were stupid just giving you an answer.

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  • cous the band irish and it was written by them. just ur from ireland and sing about england doesnt mean the song not irish

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  • because it was written by Ewan Mcoll for a play called landscape of chimneys, which was about salford. Big miscoception that its about Belfast. :) Lots of Irish bands have covered it. Google it if you dont believe me.

  • up ta bhoys ;) whatever this is an irish song,.. pure legends,.. if anyone sings this song everyone thinks of irish ppl not english,..

  • Love it!