The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #30172   Message #385648
Posted By: AndyG
30-Jan-01 - 10:13 AM
Thread Name: Who wrote ' Dirty Old Town '
Subject: RE: Who wrote ' Dirty Old Town '
A croft is a piece of waste-ground. At the time the song was written this was often a WWII bomb-site. The "gasworks croft" would be a desolate piece of ground hard by the gasworks.

Spring is a season of the year :)
ie Spring's a girl... note my apostrophe, (not in the DT).

AndyG