Wrong Way McKay

North on Hastings, east on Main, south on Keefer Street,

Directions are befuddling, for Walt upon his beat.

A B & E in progress, on Hastings about Clark,

Could have him headed anywhere, maybe Pigeon Park.

Is Union west of Hastings, or is it south of Main?

Pender crosses Venables, oh shoot let's start again.

Broadway is down east of us, Cambie to the north,

Or is it Water to the west?, he's running back and forth.

Where oh where is Prior, I know it must be near,

We're going east on Princess, the directions are quite clear.

Jackson might be closer, to where we have to get,

Cambie Street at Water, there's a victim to be met.

Some spots he is familiar with, he can find them without fail,

The days he gets assigned to work, the PIC or in the jail.

One hundred block East Hastings, another favourite spot,

For building up statistics of, some nasty crooks he's caught.

It may sound kind of roundabout, but he always gets us there,

Crooks may know we're coming, but they don't know when or where.

As a team we're like the Mounties, and always get our man,

It's just my partner may not know, just which way they ran.

So we just keeping working at it, and one day Walt will learn,

The direction we are headed, and just which way to turn.

If we can only work together, for a stretch more than a day,

Then he can lose his nickname of, "Wrong Way Walt McKay.

PC 664 T.J. Gowdyk 91-05-31 (88)