Jack the Ripper

[azzurite]

I was hoping some one on here might be able to help me track down a poem I havent read in years. When I was about 12 I read a book on Jack The Ripper that I fell in love with. No, I am not a morbid person. There was a poem in it that i had memorized but I can only remeber one line from it now and I no longer have the book. The line was "up and down the god damm town, police they try to find me" or something close to that. I would love to find that book again or at least the poem.

[rachel]

wow I hope whoever knows tells, I too would love to read that.Neither am I morbid!
welcome Azzurite, cool name. :banana: :wave:

[Pendragon]

I have several books on Jack the Ripper, but your poem isn't in any of them. BTW, I am not morbid, either. It's the forensics of the case that interest me. Patricia Cornwell may be correct, in fact I believe she is about who wrote the letters, but that doesn't prove that the person that wrote the letters was Jack the Ripper is the problem... ;)

[Isagel]

It sounded familiar. Can it be this one? Found it by google. According to the man who posted it it is attributed to Jack the Ripper 1888.

Up and down the goddamn town
Policemen try to find me,
But I ain't a chap yet to drown
In drink, or Thames or, sea.

I've no time to tell you how
I came to be a killer,
But you should know, as time will show
That I'm society's pillar.

I'm not a butcher
I'm not a Yid
Nor yet a foreign skipper,
But I'm your own light-hearted friend
Yours truly,
Jack the Ripper