This one first sung at the Village Pump, Trowbridge about a month ago. The tune fits where it touches.

HONORABLE GENTLEMAN

I'm an honorable gentleman
Since first I was elected
No one can say I'm not entirely
Admired and respected

Chorus
I'll pay the money back
Oh yes. I'll pay the money back
As soon as it's in the papers
I'll pay the money back.

You can't expect a man like me
To ape the landed gentry
On a miserable MP's pay
The sums are elementary

I'm careful not to break the rules
It's legal, don't you see?
I voted for more prisons
But they're not for chaps like me.

You paid for loads of horse-manure
You paid to clean my moat
But bull-manure I'll give to you
When calling for your vote.

In order to rule over you
I have to house my duck
My mistress, servants, relatives
I just don't give a monkey's.

At least I've got a job for life
My seat's as safe as houses
Of which I have got four or five
Which jealousy arouses

I'm an honorable member
And it's all done by the book
It's really quite unfair to call me
Charlatan and crook.

No matter how we class ourselves
As blues or reds or yellows
It's plain for all the word to see
We're honorable fellows

We'll pay the money back etc

Tune         Verse         'Grand Old Duke of York'
Chorus        Last 2 lines of 'Female Drummer Boy'