Vote for Tommy Seddon, Boys

DESCRIPTION: "If you vote for Tommy Seddon, boys, On the right road you'll be heading, boys, He'll make the roads to your abodes And bridge all the streams to heaven, boys." He will take his father's place and do good work.
AUTHOR: Ned McCormack (source: Bailey/Roth-ShantiesByTheWay-NZ)
EARLIEST DATE: 1967 (Bailey/Roth-ShantiesByTheWay-NZ)
KEYWORDS: political New Zealand
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
1893-1906 - Richard John Seddon (1845-1906) Prime Minister of New Zealand
1906 - T. E. Y. Seddon takes his father Richard's place in parliament, holding office until 1922 and again in 1925-1928
FOUND IN: New Zealand
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Bailey/Roth-ShantiesByTheWay-NZ, pp. 107-108, "Vote for Tommy Seddon, Boys" (1 text)
NOTES [67 words]: For background on Richard John Seddon, the father of Tommy Seddon, see the notes to "Sir Joseph Ward." There is also a biography, Randal Mathews Burdon, King Dick, a Biography of Richard John Seddon, reprinted by Hassell Street Press, 2021. Despite being the son of New Zealand's longest-serving Prime Minister, the younger Seddon doesn't seem to have been particularly noteworthy in his own right. - RBW
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