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From The Tennessean entertainment writer Cindy Watts: Larry Gatlin will write a song on the back of anything these days, especially if he's all worked up. Recently, Larry was in a plane on the way to a gig in Las Vegas when he read an editorial in a major American newspaper about, as he puts it, "all the horrible things America had done around the world.
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Well, that did it. Larry grabbed the closest thing he could find and started scribbling.
"Johnny Cash once said that if something torques you off, then you'll write a song about it," he said.
"That torqued me off. So I took a barf bag off the back of the seat and wrote the song."
The song is called "Americans, That's Who," and Larry plans to play the brand-new patriotic number this Saturday night on the Grand Ole Opry.
The country music veteran said he knew the song was special the first time he played it in public: "I got there and taught it to my brothers and the band, and we played it for an encore that night. Thank God we got an encore. When I got to the hook, people stood up and started clapping.
"I know there are different ideas going on the world," he continued. "But I think we're involved in what I'll call World War Four. I think the bad guys declared war on us, and they want to impose their God on me.
They want our women to cover their faces. They want to blow Israel off the face of the Earth. And they want to do it all by sending 12-year-old kids with bombs into their own mosques.
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Larry said he just wanted to remind people of all the positive things this for which this country is responsible.
"Americans were the first to respond to the tsunami," he said. "Americans are the ones who send care packages all over the world.
Americans are the ones who send millions of dollars for AIDS research to Africa. It's Americans, Americans, Americans, time and again."
Shania Twain's "Rock This Country!
" is a Round One winner among nine songs being voted on for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign theme at .
Shania talks about her inclusion in that poll in an interview with CMT Insider set to air on Saturday. "My songs are just my personality.
If somebody likes them enough to include them, I'm flattered by that," she says on the show. CMT's interview airs 12:30 to 1 p.m.
Saturday .
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