Good work, Guy. It ticks all the boxes for the style, and I can imagine it going down well with the intended audiences. I agree re. the footnotes - it was actually interesting stuff and amusing in the revealing the complexity of county naming that you were explaining, just not sure it fits in with the song (maybe in the live version rather than the recorded?).
My only slight disappointment was that it really was a list song - all the counties in there, and cleverly ordered to get the right syllables in the right places, but not too much else. What I mean is that my favourite bits were where you added a funny line about a county e.g. "There used to be a Middlesex - I don't know where it went." and "West Midlands (dreadful name!)," but that was about it. When I read your intro I was expecting a lyrical tour de force - probably a victim of expectations after your last song. And I was thinking, as I'm sure many were, what's he going to say about my home county? But I recall writing somewhere else about criticising a song for not being something it was never intended to be - and here I am doing just that!
But that minor gripe aside , it rolls along well and fair play if you can remember all those words!
Cheers
Derek