Jim, thank you for posting these lyrics. What a brilliant commentary on contemporary (well, 1980s) Ireland! And the line "we all love a rogue and we'll make him our leader, and every four years it's just right back to zero" should surely resonate with any American who voted during the last 12 years.

I have that Mary Coughlan album, as well as some others of hers. She is a very sultry, smoky, jazzy singer, and does many other great songs. (And -- whether or not you want to consider this a claim to fame -- she appeared in that silly but funny Peter O'Toole/Daryl Hannah movie, "High Spirits".)

Cheers,
Michael