The County Councillor's Song

The 'County Councillors' Song' first appeared in the Leinster Leader newspaper on May 1^st 1900, a year after the inaugural local elections took place following on from the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898.   It goes as follows:-

 

I AM A COUNTY COUNCILLOR, A VERY PUBLIC MAN

TO BENEFIT THE PEOPLE I'LL DO EVERYTHING I CAN;

IN ALL MY WAKING MOMENTS FOR THEIR WELFARE I WILL SCHEME

AND IN THE ARMS OF MORPHEUS OF IMPROVEMENTS I WILL DREAM.

A LOCAL LEGISLATOR AND A MAN OF HIGH RENOWN,

I AM THE COUNTY COUNCILLOR, THE GREATEST MAN IN TOWN