A couple of weeks ago I got an email from a friend with a link to Pete Seeger performing a new song, "God's Countin' on Me, God's Countin' on You," that he wrote with Lorre Wyatt.
The song, inspired by the Gulf oil spill and the current economic crisis, seems to me to be a fine political folk anthem of the kind you can make up verses on the fly to fit the situation. Pete performed it in the key of F, but I transposed it into D for my vocal range and for the fiddlers and mando players in my jams. Here it is:


GOD'S COUNTIN' ON ME, GOD'S COUNTIN' ON YOU
By Lorre Wyatt and Pete Seeger


D
When we look and we can see

Things that should not be
                               A7
God's countin' on me
                               D
God's countin' on you (Repeat verse)


D                  G    D      A7
Hopin' we'll all pull through
                      D F#7   Bm
Hopin' we'll all pull through
                      G    D      A7   
Hopin' we'll all pull through
                D
Me and you


It's time to turn things around
Trickle up not trickle down

Don't give up, don't give in,
There's a better world to win

And when drill, baby, drill
Turns to spill, baby, spill

There's big problems to be solved,
Let's get everyone involved

When we sing with younger folks
We can never give up hope


Additional verses from YouTube version:


Many wrong turns we have made
Change the course, don't be afraid]]

What we do now, you and me
Will affect eternity

And here are a couple of verses I've added:

When the banks have all the bucks
And the people are out of luck

When they give us endless war
We've gotta show them all the door

Charles