ELECTION SONG.

Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 207, 18 November 1896, Page 3

ELECTION SONG.

On next Election day, boy:.:, don't you throw your votes away ■ But with your darlings on your arm vote for Kelly on that day. 'Cos Kelly's he's an Irishman, not far from County Clare, And if there's ere a row in Government bouse sure Kelly's always there. He'll always vote for goodness, and never vote for bad, And round about the building;, sure, there's dozens call him " Dad !" Ci tonus — "We won't vote for Hemes, no, by iinjro! it wo do, We've got the votes, we've got the men, we've got the women too. We voted for Kelly before and we'll vote for Kelly still, 'Cos Kelly's the chap to spend the .cash, and empty out the till. T'other night be held a meeting in a well-known Public Hall, And all the way from Jordan came the Chairman at his call. There were ladies in the front seats, and rowdies at the back, And Kelly to their questions sure ho gave 'em Paddy-whack ! He vowed himself a Lib'ral not to any party gang, Ami would always vote good Irish laws ■like any honest man. Frank S—t appeared upon the stage to point us right from wrong, He'd a lump upon his snider you could hang your trousers on ; He's not a true teetotaller for he owned he loved his iiz, And the hair he had upon his head poor S-nis-n thought 'twas his. Then up gets billy S—d-n and lie made the people roar, He said poor S—t in bluchers would look better on the floor. When Kelly spoke of ladies going as members 1 o the bouse, A Mayscr in the corner cried—"to 11 ill wid. Robert Stout," lie said (lie raising of a loan was the pressure on the bank. It was now quite'' full and running o'er like Cobban's mustard tank. Ho talked of Bills before the House the country did beseech. •' Why you've fargot the Weasels Bill !" cried noted Jim O'K —f. When Kelly spoke of thousands they had spent upon the land. There were hundreds wid their families all working-hand in hand ; He spoke about the National debt and secuiity on loans, Wid milk and butter and raw eggs you must pay it from your homes.; Thin up gets railkcy D-lb—h wid his shoes and stockings mi. "Why (be debt on ibis ere Country Bill would frighten hennymon." Then the Chairman put poor S—d-n down as he'd never done before. He said, " That's not a question you are asking on the floor.'•' And Kelly mopped up M—s-p when he got him on bis feet, "You cooked a concrete pudden, boy, for working men to eat."' Then the Miller thought he'd Steele a march and at Kelly have a. smack, "Is it, forty thousand coming here or fifty going back ':" As (he Chairman came from Jordan he's very sure to i\x, Kelly down at ninety-nine and Herrios twenty-six. He'll make poor Kelly pledge himself on every platform plank To fetch'us fifty thousands to stop Colman's mustard tank. We'll poison all the fishes hero in this here lovely lake Wid stinking fish and empty dish we'll all go bung and Quake ! Now when-thp time for voting comes on some December day. You'll see Pat and Mack, aria Jim and Jack, wid Maria on the way ; They'll stop at every corner by dozens not a few, And they'll rough and tumble Herrios up into an Irish stew ; But should Kelly ere be beaten, just, as quiet as a mouse He's off for life and death, my boys, down to the Upper House. J. W. Choker. Rotoriia, November 10th, 1890.