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Musical McCain Fans: Your BPP Needs You

Filed under: Election 2008

Listen to some fandidate music on the BPP.

On today's show, we talked about songs that voters were writing for their respective candidates. Good tracks for Huckabee, Romney, Obama, and Clinton, or "H-ROC," as I like to call them. But we had a hard time finding a song for McCain, probably because he's been something of a comeback kid and songwriters haven't had long enough to do their thing.

We found a nice young man from South Carolina, Zack Dedonis, who describes himself as a amateur musician and McCain supporter. Asked him if he'd want to drop some verse about his would-be president. In about half an hour, he sent this:

G
Well it's about time, for John McCain
Am
Waited 8 Years Just To Get his Chance Again
C
He served his country, his plane got shot
D
Obama and Clinton, Ooh I think not
G
If you wanna give your money away
Am
Choose Clinton or Obama Today
C
But if you'd like your money to stay
D
Vote McCain, He won't tax us away
G
If you wanna live free and safe
Am
Vote McCain in the '08 Race
C
He's the man who can get it done
D
Vote McCain for every daughter and son

Here's the thing: Zack says he can't sing. We need you, Mellifluous McCain People. Here's a guitar track Zack sent.

Ian Chillag

9:06 AM ET | 02- 5-2008 | permalink

Comments (Send a comment)

HI BPP, I love you guys! Anyway, I wanted to share more Obama music with you. It's the "Yes We Can" song. Visit this link below.

http://my.barackobama.com/yeswecan

Alison, thanks for reading my 6 word memoir to the world! Take care you guys

Sent by Ty West | 1:12 PM ET | 02-05-2008

I second Ty West's comments:

I was very surprised that you didn't include the "yes we can" song. The production is excellent, especially the way they interleave his speech with the voices of his supporters.

http://my.barackobama.com/yeswecan

Sent by Kevin Mc | 2:16 PM ET | 02-05-2008

I too was surprised you guys didn't include the "Yes we can" song mixed by Will.I.am.

I saw it on http://www.dipdive.com from a Twitter notice from @cscan

Sent by Charlie | 4:52 PM ET | 02-05-2008

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