Hank Williams Performs "McCain-Palin Tradition" Song, Mentions "Radical Friends" (VIDEO)

Country singer Hank Williams, Jr joined the McCain-Palin campaign in in Virginia on Monday. Appearing at a rally Williams sang a version of his one-time hit song "Family Tradition" called "McCain-Palin Tradition," with all new lyrics. In the song he now sings of the liberal media, hunting and radical friends. The McCain could use a good song, as they've been told to stop using songs by Heart, Jackson Browne, Van Halen, the Foo Fighters, so far.

Watch the performance or scroll down for the lyrics:

New lyrics:

The left wing liberal media have always been a real close knit family
But most of the American people dont believe em anyway you see
Stop and think it over
Before you make your decision
If they smell something wrong, they're gonna come down strong
You know McCain-Palin tradition
John and Sarah tell you just what they think. They're not gonna blink. And they don't have radical friends to whom their careers are linked
John is his own man
And Sarah fixed Alaska's broken condition
They're gonna be just fine
Were headed for good times
You know McCain-Palin Tradition
This old unions got problems
That is plain to see
The democrats bankrupted Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Like 1-2-3
The bankers didn't want to make all those bad loans
Bill Clinton said "you got to!"
Now they wanna bail out
what I'm talking about
Is a democrat liberal hoodoo!
To me and you
John and Sarah tell you just what they think
And they're not gonna blink
They're gonna fix this country, cuz they're just like you and ol Hank
I am very proud
Of our country's name
But no society is perfect
And we have had our stains
If I'm down at the coffee shop
Somebody wants to start do give our flag friction
I say please move on, were standing strong
Thats an Old John McCain tradition
John and Sarah tell you just what they think
And they're not gonna blink
They're gonna fix this country, cuz they're just like you and ol Hank
If I'm down at the coffee shop
Somebody wants to start do give our flag friction
I say please move on, were standing strong
Thats an Old Sarah Palin tradition
Some are bound to tell you
I'm preaching to the choir
And that is very true, and we are going even higher
Like a Mama bear in Idaho
She'll protect your family's condition
If you mess with her cubs, shes gonna take off the gloves, thats an American female tradition
Ehi tell me Sarah why do you hunt
John why do you fish
How can you be so smart and savvy
such a hey good-looking dish
Yes John is his own man
And Sarah fixed Alaska's broken condition
Were gonna see the light, they're gonna get it right, its a McCain-Palin tradition

Comments

[daedelus]

How convenient. Everything that's wrong and stupid with America refined into one song.

[IndieChick]

And here are some of old Hank's ORIGINAL lyrics:

they get on me wanna know Hank
why do you drink?
(Hank) why do you roll smoke?
Why must you live out the songs that you wrote?
over and over
everybody made my prediction
so if i get stoned
I'm just carryin'
on an old family tradition
if i get stoned and sing all night long
it's a family tradition

Seems like the only ones gravitating to the McCain/Palin camp are extremist religious nuts and white trash alcoholic hayseeds. The intelligent ones all seem to be leaving.

[retrieverman1]

I found it ironic that Hank Williams Jr decided to use the drinking and doping song in his homage to McCain and Palin.

[LaurenMarie984]

A person would have to be REALLY high to appreciate the new lyrics. btw, who the hells is he?

[imsosure]

Another back-water hick comes up with a rhyme all by himself too, what a guy.

[rockyersocksoff]

Well, he's no Hank Williams...

[SailFree]

Hank Jr. is right:

Obama does have a far-left, radical set of pals.
His policies are not new or change, but a return to failed left-wing ideas, only doubled-down and squared.
I suspect McCain says what he thinks is the truth, but he's not always right!
Palin is not only as truthful as McCain, but more correct in her assessment of human nature and political reality.

[arnray]

Hey Brain Cell Free, if Palin is correct in her assessment of human nature then we are way overdue for the next meteor to hit and let the earth start again with producing an intelligent dominant lifeform.

[loucreattie]

Do you have any clue what you are talking about?

Suggestion, you have to read more than one source of media to get an informed decision that is not biased.

Oh and you have to be informed. And judging from your comment you are not.

[MilwaukeeMike]

Been rolling a couple there?

[arnray]

Hank Jr. is evidence that talent skips a generation.

[IndieChick]

haha. so true. The "JR". is NOTHING like his father OR his son.

[IndyofDC]

The choice of Palin destroys all sense respectability for the second highest office in the US. Sarah Palin as a candidate is a sign of this countries' downward evolution. Seriously, are the people following her that blind to the facts or just plain stupid?

I cringe when the right wing pundits compare Palin to Ronald Reagan. That’s an insult to the legacy of Reagan. Like him or despise him, Reagan was an eloquent speaker and master politician. No wonder the GOP elite are jumping off the ship at an alarming rate. They want nothing to do with this sinking ship that McCain built.

Lastly, no offense to those working at Wal-Mart, but Palin reminds me of checkout clerk at Wal-Mart, except for the fact that these clerks are not arrogant and narcissistic

[BurtR]

Reagan was a vicious, twisted man.

[arnray]

Not to mention shallow, vacuous, and deceitful.

[VegetableMan]

back to the woodshed with ya, jethro. there's gonna be a new sheriff in town come november 4.

yup yup.

by the way, HW3 kicks your sorry ass, little buckerette...

[davidmaxwell]

Maverick Tradition
by Max Jukes, with apologies to the
formally-respected Hank Williams, Jr.

Conservative-minded thinkers
Have always been a real close family
But now the Republican party
Has disavowed much of their policies
I guess it’s because
of their treasonous insurrection
I guess they’re carryin’ on the ole maverick tradition.

I wanna know McCain
Why don’t you think?
Is this just one big joke?
Why must you pressure dumb hillbillies to vote?
Over and over
You stir up racial invections
So like ole Karl Rove, and others we loathe,
It’s a maverick tradition

Lordy, you’ve backhanded ladies
And called them all kinds of names
And so you put one on your ticket
“just to get the votes of the dames”
When the country asks you,
“Son, where’s your once-proud convictions?”
You’ll say, “I renounced them all, to try to win this fall—
It’s the maverick tradition.”

Don’t ask him, John
Why don’t you think?
John, why are we so broke?
Why must you live out the lies Bush/Cheney wrote?
If you’re down in the polls right now
And Palin’s your only protection
Just get all red, and poke em hard in the chest
It’s the maverick tradition.

So don’t ask McCain
Why did you run?
And why will you lose?
Can’t you admit you’re in
Bonaparte’s shoes
Ask Bristol Palin
How she found herself in that condition
That’s what you’d to us, if you could gain our trust
It’s the maverick tradition.

[Ciganka]

Thank you. You made that horrible memory go away

[DebB]

It took him 2 months to come up with that??

How many people actually look up to someone like Hank Williams JR? Watch his life story - can't be too many more functioning brain cells left there!

[daedelus]

Q. How do you compliment a Hank Williams Jr. fan?
A. "Nice tooth."

[thegirlnextdoor]

This guy is not Hank Williams in any way. He can't write and he can't sing. Ouch! I could n't listen to the end. It made my head hurt.

He is Hank Williams the second or third. There is a huge huge difference! Please fix your headlines and spare the late great Hank Williams.

[scmucas2001]

I think he's Junior.

III is a Satanist, or at least he hangs out with the Glenn Danzig/Marilyn Manson/Stanton LaVey crowd.

[SILVANUS]

P a t h e t i c IS as P a t h e t i c does.

[LydiaMontague]

You have got to be kidding me.

[exile]

holy cow
how did they get this guy sobered up enough to remember the words??