WATCH ABOVE: If the presidential thing doesn’t work out, Obama could always become a crooner.
TORONTO – In a week that is witnessing a U.S. President quickly become a political jukebox, Barack Obama has done it again after meeting a man named Davy Crockett.
The 53-year-old was hosting a town hall on health care at Taylor Stratton Elementary School in Madison, a suburb of nearby Nashville.
“Is your name really Davy Crockett?” Obama asked a man. “That’s a cool name. But you don’t have that beaver cap.”
“I’ve got one at the house,” Crockett answered, much to the delight of the audience and Obama.
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James Davy Crockett went on to explain that he’s been denied social security four times and asked if the President could help.
After promising to expedite an answer, a familiar television show’s theme song came tumbling out.
“Davvvyyy, Davy Crockett!” Obama sung with a wide grin. “I love that.”
David “Davy” Stern Crockett, 1786-1836, was a famous American frontiersman, soldier and politician who died at the Battle of the Alamo and has repeatedly been labelled the “King of the Wild Frontier” in popular culture.
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Obama’s dulcet tones also made headlines last Thursday when the American president broke into Amazing Grace during a funeral for a Charleston church shooting victim.
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