No. 1 reason to show up at the presidential inauguration a half hour early – As a warm up to the swearing-in ceremony, Guy Hovis, a former singer on the Lawrence Welk Show and the director of Trent Lott’s Mississippi senate office, will perform Let the Eagle Soar. In case you were too busy being arrested and held without anyone letting you contact your lawyer to notice, this is the song written by outgoing Attorney General John Ashcroft which he sang in a video that became one of the most forwarded and laughed at Internet jokes, not to mention a high point of the soundtrack of Fahrenheit 9/11, though oddly it wasn’t included on the album. Go figure.

Here’s a video of the original performance