Urban myth suggests that the origin of the song was a body found in the Forth and Clyde canal under a bridge. It was judiciously pushed into the the next police area by the first policeman to be called . Having witnessed a weel kent "hard Man" polis in the 60s disappearing to throw up after having supervised a body removal from the canal I would have some sympathy with the original finder
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