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Thread #30172   Message #1141918
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
20-Mar-04 - 05:18 PM
Thread Name: Who wrote ' Dirty Old Town '
Subject: RE: Who wrote ' Dirty Old Town '
I don't know if he ever recorded it. Likely not. As well as the ones mentined, you've got Elvis Presley, Shirley Bassey, Celine Dion, Johnny Cash...But not Ewan MacColl. (It must be on tape somewhere though.)
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Gasholder may have been correct, but "Gasometers" were what people called them. Except when "gasworks" was used, eqally incorrectly, as in:

Though the gasworks isn't wilets,
they improve the local scene
For mountains they would very nicely pass...

(From If it wasn't for the 'ouses in between.)