I was going to start a new thread but this one seems very apt and only 10 years old :-)

In the discussion on Ewan MacColl's biography "A Class Act" I mentioned that Dirty Old Town was the first song I performed publicly. Rather than clutter that thread up, I have reopened this one. I said a version I heard when I was in my teens nearly put me off folk music. It was probably the Alan Lomax and the Ramblers version and on re-listening 50+ years later, I liked it a lot more. While searching for that I found one by Esther and Abi Ofarim I had never heard and one by Rod Stewart, which I had heard but forgotten about. Both versions are, in my opinion, preferable to The Pogues version but that is just my opinion.

What are your favourite versions?