Come Here To Me!

But my like you shall ne’er see again,
I found for the most of you places,
You are the most ungrateful of men
And I’m bound to say so to your faces
For the rol, lol the rol, lol the ree…

I was struck by this excerpt from a great song my brother produced from ‘The Mercier Book of Old Irish Street Ballads’, written to sum up the feelings of a ‘Crafty Codger’ upon the overthrow of his political party. It was hard not to be reminded of the sentiments over the course of the last 48 hours, with some excellent ‘I FIXED THE ROADS’ speeches delivered on the way out the door. The little people just don’t know what’s good for them….