Wise Up Tom Fool

If you support a political party and from politics you don't gain Then you must be one great idiot 'Tom Fool' should have been your name As most politicians are deceitful they are a crooked sort of breed And I've little love for tricksters or twisted men of greed. For the noble politicians one must go back in time and years For the men who earned their peoples trust and won the critics cheers Men like America's Abraham Lincoln one of the greatest Statesmen of them all And India's great Ghandi and the Frenchman Charles De Gaulle. Not that many Politicians have won their people's unreserved acclaim Since the brilliant Dan O Connell the man from Derrynane In the British house of Parliament when all of Ireland's people were subject to the crown The genius of O Connell for him won Worldwide renown. And so you support a political party who have helped you in some way Then you are doing the proper thing my friend as a favour done you ought repay But if you support a political party just for love and not for gain Then you must be one great idiot 'Tom Fool' should have been your name