Michael Healy Rae gets inspiration from Billy Joel classic for latest election song
09/04/2024 Dublin Ireland. Independent TD Michael Healy Rae walking into the Dail (Leinster House) as the election of a new Taoiseach takes place today. Photo: Sasko Lazarov/© RollingNews.ie
Michael Healy Rae has released a song as part of his general election campaign, as has become tradition for the Kerry TD.
The Independent TD posted the song on social media on Wednesday, just nine days before the country heads to the polls.
"I was asked if I had a new election song, so I said, let’s make it about something close to my heart. Keeping the home fires burning in Kerry," Mr Healy Rae wrote on X.
The song, which is sung to the tune of Billy Joel classic 'We Didn't Start the Fire', includes a chorus which goes: "He has turf in the fire, it was always Healy Rae, here to save the day."
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It name drops Charlie Chaplin, Tom Crean, Peig Sayers, John B Keane, and Michael Fassbender while also rhyming Moll's Gap with "politician in a cap".
This is not the first time Healy Rae has released a song to add a little X Factor to his campaign.
In 2016, Killarney-based band Truly Diverse were recruited to create an election hit for Healy Rae. The result, ‘Michael Healy-Rae — Make the Diff’, was described as a mixture of rap and country and western.
For the last general election in 2020, Healy Rae posted a song set to the tune of 'Come Out Ye Black And Tans' to promote his bid to hold onto his seat in the Kingdom.
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