A friend, Gary Paine, whom I know through the
Seattle Folklore Society, has written a new verse to the Beatles song "Let It Be" (which Paul McCartney wrote for his mother, Mary, while he was still a teenager).   Gary dedicated the new verse to Barack Obama and to the pursuit of peace, and he has posted an audio of the modified "Let It Be" song on You Tube.

I asked Gary if he'd like to post the YouTube link here at Mudcat, and this [in part] was his reply (by email):

" I would be honored to have the lyrics and a pointer to my youtube thingie posted on mudcat. Can you do this? Or is this something I need to do? You have my blessing to do it.

... I sing in a choir and Beth (an alto in my choir) is singing the song with me.
Rob, my guitar teacher, is playing the guitar and helped me put the whole thing together and get it to youtube.

That is me near the end flashing the peace sign, and Chardell [my wife] is the lone figure near the start when we start singing. The whole thing is in wonderful focus in Rob's original (mountains and my peace sign are in focus).

But it was 2 MB in size and we had to squeeze it down to 1 MB to put it on youtube.
So we kept audio quality and sacrificed video quality.

I remember you had many songs I liked at Mary's Sunny Camp several years ago.
I actually browsed on Mudcat several years ago - I used the alias Woody (I like Woody Guthrie).

But I haven't been back for several years. I have information overload from too much internet info, but I remember I liked browsing down the threads and hearing from "folkies" all over the world.

...

Gary"

I hope Gary ("Woody") will check in here again.   Meanwhile, here is the link to the Youtube:
"Let It Be" with new verse dedicated to Barack Obama.