Then version I remember is quite different again from Giok: THE COPPER'S SONG (sung by Hamish Imlach) It was doon in auld Invertotty Ra Gestapo were oot on their beat Lookin' fur murder and arson An' drunks as they stoat doon the street Now two of the chief constabyul's agents Had notebooks right full of names Forty men, three women and a dug Fur peein' up closes an' lanes It was twelve o'clock when they found it Lying there jist like a log 'Twas a badly bashed aboot body Tyre marks scorched up his physog Well they went through the usual procedure Kicked it tae make sure it was dead Then they went through his pockets and shared oot his cash Smoked all his fags while he bled Then they lifted up that body Wan at his head an' his feet An' they cairried it oot o' that alleyway An' left it oan anither man's beat It was fower o'clock when they re-found it Propped up in an old chip shop door It was naked by noo, wi' a note roond its neck "Not wanted oan beats three and four!"
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