Sure, President Bill Clinton knew how to rock the house with his saxophone.

And Boris Yeltsin used to get his groove on now-and-again on the campaign trail.

But it is a little known fact that 85-year-old Israeli President Shimon Peres is a closet rock star. (And you thought he just palled around with Madonna...)

OK, maybe Peres is not a rock star quite yet, but he is a songwriter

This year, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of The Peres Center for Peace, Italian opera tenor Andrea Bocelli joined Israeli teen pop star Liel Kolet in performing the Israeli president's latest song, "Ray of Hope."

Earlier this year, Peres posted the words to "Ray of Hope" on a songwriting Web site called Songweavers and encouraged musicians around the world to write the music to accompany his lyrics.

As David Brinn writes today in The Jerusalem Post, Kolet, 19, said that she was so inspired by the words when she read them that she produced the melody in an hour.

Here's the president's song, in full:

Ray of Hope

By President Shimon Peres

Oh my lord, it's time to pray.

When a new sun shines, let's make hay.

So save my land from desert stay,

call the oceans salt to melt away...

And bless the streams with love's sway.

Provide my foe and friend a bloodless day.

Invite boys and girls for peace to pray,

then send a Ray of Hope

for a new way.

Don't expect a Grammy nomination, but if Al Gore can win an Oscar, nothing's out of the question.

Kolet made something of a name for herself in 2003 when she invited Clinton on stage to sing John Lennon's "Imagine" at an 80th birthday gala for Peres.

That you can see here: