John Rich, one half of the duo “Big and Rich,” staged a concert for Republican presidential candidate John McCain in the Florida Panhandle.

The free concert, sponsored by the Florida Republican Party, attracted hundreds of people who came to hear Rich’s number-one hit “Lost in This Moment With You,” as well as the debut of a song that the country singer wrote especially for the presidential candidate: “Raising McCain.”

The crowd danced along to the new hit, which had the following chorus: “Well we’re all just raisin’ McCain. Everywhere across the USA. You can get on the train or get out of the way. We’re all just raisin’ McCain.” Rich performed the song on his own, as his band partner Big Kenny didn’t accompany him, being an Obama supporter.

Several McCain fans who attended the concert wore “NOBAMA” bumper stickers and one of them sported a T-shirt that read: “Don’t let the USA become an Obama-Nation.”

In between songs, 34-year-old Rich declared himself a Texas west conservative and confessed he got frustrated when he turned on the television because “I always see the other side” represented.

When he performed Johnny Cash’s “Walk the Line,” Rich said that he was sure Cash would have been a John McCain supporter “if he was still around.”

John McCain and his wife Cindy arrived at the concert, just as Rich was performing the “Raising McCain” song.

He gave a short speech in which he asked for votes in the battleground state and reminded the crowd, which included several military veterans, that he supported the war in Iraq.

“We will not surrender, not in Iraq or Afghanistan or anywhere else in the world,” he told the public.   

Big Kenny Alphin did not attend the concert and is also reported to have given money to Democrat Barack Obama’s campaign, Reuters informs.