[Intro]

Mr. Pike is watching

As Mr. Toad did call

That in the Thames at Mortlake

Another murdered whore

Shoveler turns to Godwit

As they gaze into the river

The things they find in there

Can make the poor fish shiver

It's not only justice that has scales

But unlike justice we’re not blind

For Mr. Toad keeps his eyes open

And tells Mr. Pike, who did the crime

[Verse]

Folow the river

As it bends

Take a straw along

Murder on Thames

The quiet's broken

By the barks

From the guard dogs

Of oligarchs

A low paid au pair

She gets the sack

From the trophy wife

Of a plutocrat

See the arms traders

And the Saudi sheiks

Oh, look, a pedophile DJ

And an Ayn Rand freak

With ermine privilege

And the discreet fees

Lobbying at Westminster's

Den of thieves

Folow the river

As it bends

Take a straw with me along

Murder on Thames

[Skit]

On June 18th, Robert Calvi was found dead, hanging from the scaffolding beneath Blackfriars Bridge. In his pockets were a false passport under the name Gian Roberto Calvini, several heavy bricks and 15 thousand dollars in variety of currencies

Initially thought to be just another Thames suicide; as the identity and last movements of Calvi became known, the circumstances of his death became more and more suspect. Nicknamed "God’s Banker" due to his professional relationship with the Catholic Church, his bank also has known links with the Mafia. The day before his body was found he was removed from his position in the Banco Ambrosiano and his private secretary committed suicide. By then he has already fled his Rome apartments in London

Georgi Markov, a BBC World-Service journalist, walked across Waterloo Bridge to his bus stop, on September 7th. He remembered feeling a prick or sting to his right thigh and noted a man carrying an umbrella running away to a nearby taxi. In four days time he would be dead: killed by a tiny ricin-filled pellet embedded in his skin

In 2001 the torso of a young boy was found in the river not far from Tower Bridge. There is evidence of a ritual killing. Investigations are ongoing and stretches across several countries. Tabloid newspapers are filling in the gaps with words like "voodoo" and "Satanist"

In 1887 and '88 a series of unsolved crimes took place. Female body parts began to be found in the river, along its banks and in sites close to the Thames. At the time the deaths were given little press atention as Whitechapel was the centre of the city's macabre fears and expectations. Torsos floating in the river were just morbid curiosities and footnotes in larger tales of urban horror

In 1896 Amelia Dyer was hung by the neck until dead. No suicide this: her death was sanctioned by Judge and Jury for her crimes. Due to the time-frame of her murders, she too was considred a possible suspect for the Whitechapel killer, but her victums were less bloody, too young and too many. She killed babies. For a substantial one-off fee and enough clothing for the child, she would nurse and adopt a baby: a practice known as baby-farming

In 1879 she was convinced of causing infant deaths through neglect and spent six months in hard labour. After that time the bodies of the children were not given up to the doctors. They simply vanished downstream or in carpet-bags weight down with bricks the tiny souls sank to the bottom