Background
On "Rock This Country!" Twain said the song is "a very live, fast-driving song. We wrote that one on the beach in Florida. I had had the title a long time". "Rock This Country!" became the closing song each night on both the Come on Over Tour and the Up! Tour. It is the only song to stay the same on both the original and international versions of Come on Over. Al Gore used "Rock This Country!" as the theme song to his 2000 Presidential Campaign. Hillary Clinton selected "Rock This Country!" as a candidate theme song for her 2008 Presidential campaign.
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