Rocker John Mellencamp has reached out to Republican presidential candidate John McCain in a bid to prevent the U.S. senator from using his songs on the campaign trail.

Mellencamp, a fervent Democrat, is distressed to hear his tunes Our Country and Pink Houses are being used as Republican anthems at McCain rallies.

And now the singer-songwriter's aides have asked McCain to refrain from using the songs, according to Rolling Stone magazine.

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