Brooks and Yearwood performed the same song just over a year prior at the funeral for Carter’s wife, former first lady Rosalynn Carter.

The acoustic take on John Lennon's anti-materialistic paean to peace and a borderless world without religion provided one of the poignant moments at Thursday's (Jan. 9) event.

Jimmy Carter, the 39th U.S. President, is being honored with the pageantry of a state funeral in the nation’s capital. He will later be honored a second service and burial in his tiny Georgia hometown ...