Dirty Water

"Dirty Water"
Label on the 1965 US single
Single by the Standells
from the album Dirty Water
B-side"Rari"
ReleasedNovember 1965 (1965-11)
RecordedMarch 5, 1965 (1965-03-05)
StudioUniversal, Hollywood
Genre
Length2:48
Label
Songwriter(s)Ed Cobb
Producer(s)Ed Cobb
The Standells singles chronology
"Don't Say Goodbye"
(1965)
"Dirty Water"
(1965)
"Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White"
(1966)

"Dirty Water" is a song by the American rock band The Standells, written by their producer Ed Cobb. The song is a mock paean to the city of Boston, Massachusetts, and its then-famously polluted Boston Harbor and Charles River.