Download MP3   It’s time for everyone to just chill out!  No matter which side of the aisle you’re on, it’s been a tough political year for all of us.  But it’s time to move on, for cryin’ out loud – LET IT BE!

This song was the name of The Beatles last album.  The album was supposed to be entitled “Get Back”, but that proved to be entirely inappropriate.  There was no going back to what they were – there was only moving away from each other to pursue their own lives and careers.  It was time to just “let it be” and travel another road.

In a 1972 interview, Paul McCartney revealed who “Mother Mary” was in the song.  Most people at the time believed it to be a biblical reference, but not so.  Paul’s mother had died when he was 14, and she came to him in a dream one night in “times of trouble – speaking words of wisdom”.  His mother’s name, of course, was Mary.

So let’s use this tune as our own inspiration in this troubled time.  If you’re performing this song with these backups, do me a favor –  introduce the piece as a sign of better times to come.  Let’s get with the program, folks… let it go already.