Dirty Old Town Chords

KeyD Capo2st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays517

Dirty Old Town by Nolwenn Leroy is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D with a capo on the 2st fret. It uses the chords D, G, A, Bm, C and Em. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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D
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Intro: |D   |D   |D   | 

Verse: 1 
D           D   D                 D 
 I found my love by the gas works craft 
D             G  G             D 
  Dreamed a dream by the old canal 
D            D  D               D 
 I Kissed my boy by the factory wall 

 
D           A 
  Dirty old town 
D           Bm 
  Dirty old town 

Verse: 2 
Bm           D       D           D 
  Clouds are drifting across the moon 
D          G       G         D 
  Cats are prowling on their beat 
D             D D                   D 
  Spring's a boy from the street at night 

 
D           A 
  Dirty old town 
D           Bm 
  Dirty old town 

Instrumental 
| G  |G   |G   |G    | 
|G   |C   |C   |G    | 
|G   |G   |G   |G    | 
|G   |D   |D   |Em   | 

Verse: 3 
N.C.        D    D         D 
  I Heard a siren from the docks 
D          G G                 D 
  Saw a train set the night on fire 
D                   D    D             D 
 And I smelled the spring on the smoky wind 

 
D           A 
  Dirty old town 
D           Bm 
  Dirty old town  

Verse: 4 
Bm          D  D            D 
 I'm gonna make a goood sharp axe 
D         G    G                D 
  Shining steel tempered in the fire 
                  D   D                 D 
And I'll chop you down like an old dead tree 

 
D           A 
  Dirty old town 
D           Bm 
  Dirty old town 
Bm          A 
  Dirty old town 
A           Bm 
  Dirty old town 

Outro 
Bm          A 
  Dirty old town 
A           Bm 
  Dirty old town 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante