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Thread #101529 Message #2048130
Posted By: Effsee
10-May-07 - 11:52 AM
Thread Name: Origins: The Copper's Song (Hamish Imlach)
Subject: Lyr Add: THE COPPER'S SONG (from Hamish Imlach)
Is it this one?
It was doon in auld Invertoddie The Gestapo were oot on their beats Lookin' for murder and arson And drunks as they stot doon the street
Noo two of the Chief Constables agents Had note-books quite full of names Fourteen men, three women and a dog For peein' up closes and lanes
It was twelve o'clock when they found it Lyin' there just like a log T'was a badly bashed aboot body Tyre marks scotched up it's physog
They went through the usual procedures They kicked it tae mak sure it was dead Then they went through it's pockets and shared oot it's cash And smoked all it's fags while it bled
They then lifted up this body One at it's head and it's feet and they carried it aff tae an alleyway And dumped it on an ither man's beat
It was four o'clock when they re-found it Propped up in an old chip shop doo r It was naked by now with a note roond it's neck Not wanted on beats three or four.