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Dirty Old Town sheet music and tin whistle notes

Dirty Old Town Tin / Penny Whistle Sheet Music Notes plus the flute fingering chart. The time signature is 4/4 .There's a youtube tutorial video which will teach you how to play Dirty Old Town on your tin whistle In the key of D Major and written by Ewan McColl and recorded by The Pogues, also by The Dubliners. Dirty old town do re mi solfege sheet music notes included for those who use that system of playing. 10 hole diatonic harmonica Tab is included in D. The song lyrics and chords of Dirty Old Town.  The piano letter music notes which are suited to the recorder or flute are included. If you play a recorder in the key of D then the same notes will work for you. I have also included the easy to follow keyboard / piano accordion notes. This song is in the top ten most popular folk songs of all time. I also added a version for a C tin whistle. Ukulele tab in Low G tuning included.
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Dirty Old Town sheet music and tin whistle notes
Dirty Old Town sheet music and tin whistle notes for a D whistle key
Be low is the list of tin whistle tabs in The Pogues ebook of songs.
​They all have the lyrics. The price is €7.40
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Tin whistle notes for Dirty Old Town in the key of G
Dirty Old Town easy tin whistle notes

Ebook of The Pogues Tin Whistle Tabs

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​Below is the list of sheet music and tin whistle songs that are in my ebooks. This is the largest collection of tin whistle songs ever put together.[over 900 songs ] Including folk, pop and trad tunes plus German And French songs along with Christmas Carols.
All of the sheet music tabs have been made as easy to play as was possible.
​The price of the ebooks is €7.50 
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Girl playing the tin whistle with other musicians

Below are the basic right hand notes on piano / keyboard for Dirty Old Town

Dirty old town beginner piano notes
Dirty old town beginner piano notes
More easy Irish folk to play piano / whistle / flute letter notes  in this ​​PDF Ebook Of Letter Notes
dirty old town easy flute notes
dirty old town easy flute notes for beginners showing the finger position chart
here's the easy version in letter note form. 
The lower case letters are the high notes.
D G   A   B     G  A    B    G        D
I met my love by the gas works wall
B              d    e         d  B    A   G B
Dreamed the dream by the old canal
d e         d    B   G   A   B  G    D
I kissed my girl by the factory wall
D G   B   A       A G   E   E
Dirty old town, dirty old town
You may notice in the video that I play the high D note while leaving the hole nearest my mouth open as opposed to keeping all the holes closed. This is just my way of doing it as it helps to distinguish between the low and high Ds. It's totally up to yourself what way you want to play and given note. There are several ways of playing every note on the whistle. By the way I'm using a Susato Kildare model as I have yet to find a better whistle for the same price. They are around 25 euro.

Tip - Don't try to play it all at once, learn it one line at a time. Get the first line of by heart even if it takes a hundred tries. Then learn the second line, then put the first and second parts of the tune together. Do the same with the third and forth lines and then put the whole thing together. After all there's only 4 lines in the whole song. You'll get there in the end.


If you ever listened to the Pogues version of this song you may have noticed that they changed keys through the song. The first part using harmonica is played in the key of D. The verses are in the key of G, and the instrumental using the uilleann pipes is in the key of C. 
Here's another version using the 
standard notes found on the D' whistle. 
The video is yours truly playing a Susado 
plastic whistle, of all the one's I already 
tried I find this the best. Here's the notes 
I play, with the high notes in bold. To get 
the high ones just blow a bit harder.
D F# A B A G B G D.
B D E D B A G B
D E D B A G B G D
D G B A, A A A G E E
Dirty old town tin whistle notes for the key of C

Arpeggios sheet music for Dirty Old Town with chords

arpeggios sheet music for Dirty Old Town with chords

ukulele tab in Low G tuning

Dirty old town ukulele tab in Low G

Standard sheet music for Dirty Old Town In The Key Of D Major

Dirty old town sheet music in the key of D Major
Dirty old town sheet music in the key of D Major
Dirty old town do re mi solfege sheet music notes
Dirty old town do re mi solfege sheet music notes
Below is the full sheet music score for Dirty Old Town in G Major
Dirty old town full sheet music score
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