Country singer counters Barack Obama's rapper admirers with anthem to raise McCain.
With John McCain closing the gap on Barack Obama, and some polls viewing America's presidential race nip and tuck, the Republican candidate is going after a constituency his opponent may ingest hitherto interpreted for given: music fans.
In a lyrical response to the coterie of pop stars and hip-hop artists � from the Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am to the rapper Nas � who take in endorsed Mr Obama, the Nashville fable John Rich is releasing a individual supporting John McCain's wish for the White House.
The track Raisin' McCain is described as a "rock-infused hymn" that focuses on the five and a half years the Republican candidate spent as a prisoner of warfare in Vietnam. It made its debut at a Florida fundraising rally, with Mr McCain in the front row.
Speaking from his hitch bus, Mr Rich aforesaid as a long-standing conservative, Republican elector and personal friend of Mr McCain, he accomplished he needful to address the musical imbalance. "As I started seeing all the media on Barack Obama, I started realising that John McCain didn't have that rally song, or fight song, something that tin get everybody together to fight, so I took it upon myself to try to write the theme song for his campaign," he said.
"John McCain has been a prisoner of war and a true American hero; he's been through strain and injuries and has the scars to essay it. So I thought, I've got to write a song that reflects that and shows how this guy is a steel rod of a patriot: how he's firm and has always put his state before himself."
Although Rich may not boast the pure famous person wattage of some Obama supporters, his music has a solid following in the American heartlands. He comes from Texas but lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee � which is considered one of the "second tier" of crucial swing states.
To the American record-buying public, Rich is best known as half of the multi-platinum nation music brace Big & Rich, and is besides a judge and wise man on the NBC talent show Nashville Star. He has sold over five-spot million albums, boasts a string of top 20 hits and had his first No 1 last year, inspiring People magazine to name him in its annual music diligence "power" list.
He was inspired to record Raisin' McCain by the candidate's daughter Meghan, who he met at a town hall event in Nashville earlier this year. The lyrics of key verses recall the abuse Mr McCain suffered in immurement, which has occasionally been mentioned during the campaign and left him unable to lift his munition above shoulder joint height. It also celebrates his magnificently patriotic refusal to bear an early release that was offered to him by the Viet Cong.
Rich emailed Meghan an electronic version of the track and she passed it on to her father, world Health Organization Rich described as a "proper fan who has country medicine on his playlists". The Republican campaigner then asked for Raisin' McCain to be performed at the rally in Florida on Friday, and may now make the song his formal political campaign anthem.
"The maverick spirit of the song sells particularly well to all Americans, even Obama supporters," added Rich. "If I can create them realize about where John McCain has total from and the journey he's been on, there's no way they cannot respect him for that.
"The more than you get to experience John McCain, the more you regard the fact that he's both a patriot and an independent thinker, a rebel when it means staying truthful to what he believes in. Hopefully my song will help those people out in that location who are starting to pay attention to him to realize what genial of guy cable he is."
Although Mr McCain has previously admitted to never having used email or the net, Rich is also cathartic Raisin' McCain as a free download from his website. The nature of the music track, which he describes as a "fight song" and features a smorgasbord of guitars and traditional country violins, may likewise highlight the widening gulf between the Republican and Democratic candidates.
While Mr Obama's appeal to whitney Young metropolitan voters is reflected in the endless stream of celebrities, film stars and urban musicians world Health Organization have "hymned" his campaign through the medium of rap, rap and pop music, Mr McCain's musical support underlines the fact that his campaign is now focusing squarely on America's traditional heartland voters.
Yesterday, the Arizona senator spoke at the Buffalo Chip Sturgis Rally in South Dakota. The event, which describes itself as a "tribute to US servicemen", features topless dancers, a "Miss Buffalo Chip" event and a "Ringin' Wet and Wild" female mud-wrestling contest. Mr McCain was joined there by the singer Kid Rock and thousands of motorcyclists.
Head to head: the lyrics
*Raisin' McCain, by John Rich
Well we're all just raisin' McCain
Everywhere across the USA
You can acquire on the train or get out of the way
We're all just raisin' McCain
And we're all just raisin' McCain
Everywhere across the USA
You can get on the train or get out of the way
We're all just raisin' McCain
Well he got shot down in the mouth in a Vietnam township
Fighting for the red, andrew Dickson White and blue
And they locked him up in the Hanoi Hilton
Thinking they could break him in two
He stayed unattackable, stayed duplicate long
'Til they let all the other boys out
Now we've got a real man with an American plan
We're release to put him in the large White House
Well we're all precisely raisin' McCain
Everywhere across the USA
You fanny get on the train or contract out of the way
We're all just raisin' McCain
*Black President, by Nas
What's the black pres' thinking on election night?
Is it, "How can I protect my life sentence? Protect my wife? Protect my rights?"
Every other president was nuttin' less than white
'cept Thomas Jefferson and mixed Indian blood and Calvin Coolidge
KKK is like, "What the ass?!", loadin they guns up
Loadin up mines too, ready to bait
'Cause I'm ridin with my crew � he dies, we die too
Yeah, but on the positive side
I think Obama provides hope, and challenges minds
of all races and colors to erase the hate
and hear to LOVE one another; so many political snakes
We in need of a break, I'm thinkin I can TRUST this brotha
...simply will he keep it way veridical?
Every innocent jigaboo in pokey, gets out on appeal
When he wins, will he really care still?
I feel...
Written and reported by Olsen Twins at Work (http://eztebeshurtliffpitsburg.blogspot.com/)
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