Watford walk on to Z Cars?

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

The real shock is that the people of Birkenhead had good enough taste to use Z-Cars a few times at Tranmere.

Apparently "the Liverpool Tide" signifies what side of the River she was on.... as in NOT the Birkenhead side.


Bet he only worked on the Ferry as well ffs.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

from the page with the Lyrics.....


Notes

Collected as a children's play (skipping) song in Liverpool, the words
were filled out by Frank Kidson, who collected it from a singer
of deficient memory. The verse about sheets and blankets crops
up in one form or another in many songs and the first verse is
often sung:

Johnny Todd he took a notion
For to cross the raging tide,
And he left his true love behind him
Weeping on the Liverpool side.

(the Liverpool side of the river, that is, not the Birkenhead
side). Another version of the tune was passed from Ewan McColl
to Marlene Dietrich, who sang it in cabaret for a while.
Much later, the song was re-immortalised when Fritz Spiegel,
sometime flautist with the Liverpool Philarmonic Orchestra, and
his ex-wife, Bridget Fry, arranged the melody as the signature tune
for the television series "Z-cars." The effect aimed at was that
of the fife-and-drum band playing in an Orangeday parade. The
section of the Liverpool Phil that recorded the tune found some
difficulty in playing the "off" notes.