Presidential campaign
1840 campaign song
1864, 1880; modified Union version for the
Lincoln/Johnson 1864 campaign, also James
Garfield's 1880 campaign
1928 campaign song
President/
Candidate
William Henry
Harrison
Abraham
Lincoln, James
A. Garfield
Song
Genre
Tippecanoe & Tyler Too
Various Artists
Soul/Funk
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Battle Cry of Freedom
Various Artists
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Duke Ellington
Johnny
Marvin/Leonard Joy
Frank Sinatra
Country
Standards/Ran
dom
Standards/Ran
dom
Standards/Ran
dom
Standards/Ran
dom
Standards/Ran
dom
1932 campaign song
Al Smith
Franklin D.
Roosevelt
1948 campaign song
Harry Truman
1948 campaign song
1960 campaign song, Sinatra modified the
lyrics in 1960 to show support for JFK.
Harry Truman
Sidewalks of New York
Happy Days are Here
Again
I'm Just Wild About
Harry
I'm Just Wild About
Harry
John F. Kennedy
George
McGovern
High Hopes
Bridge Over Troubled
Water
Walter Mondale
1972 campaign song
1984 campaign song, also theme from
Rocky
Artist
How to
Get It
Judy Garland
Eubie Blake & Moble
Sissle (creators)
Simon & Garfunkel
Hollywood
Symphony
Folk
Rock
1992 campaign song
Bill Clinton
Gonna Fly Now
Don't Stop (Thinkin'
about tomorrow)
Rock
1992 campaign song
2000 campaign song
Bill Clinton
Dennis Kucinich
This is the Moment
Give Peace a Chance
Fleetwood Mac
Leslie Bricusse &
Frank Wildhorn
John Lennon
2000 campaign song
George W. Bush
No Surrender
Bruce Springsteen
Folk
2000 campaign song
2000 campaign song
George W. Bush
Al Gore
We, the People
You Ain't Seen Nothin'
Billy Ray Cyrus
Bachman Turner
Rock
Rock
Folk/Rock
Rock
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Freegal
Freegal
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2004 & 2008 Edwards campaign song, used
by McCain at 2008 campaign events until
Mellencamp requested that they stop
2004 campaign song
2004 campaign song
2004 campaign song
John McCain,
John Edwards
2004, 2008, 2012 campaign song
John Kerry
George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George W.
Bush, John
Kerry, Barack
Obama, Newt
Gingrich, Mitt
Romney, Scott
Walker
2008 campaign song
Yet
Overdrive
Pink Houses
John Mellencamp
Creedence
Clearwater Revival
Van Halen
Pat Green
Fortunate Son
Right Now
Wave on Wave
Rock
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Rock
Rock
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Brooks & Dunn
Rock
Barack Obama
Only in America
(Your Love Keeps
Lifting Me (Higher &
Higher)
Jackie Wilson
New
Wave/Punk
2008 campaign song
2008 campaign song
2008 campaign song
2008 campaign song
2008 campaign song
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
9 to 5
American Girl
Beautiful Day
Better Way
Black President
Rock
Rock
Rock
Folk
Rap/Hip-Hop
2008 campaign song
Hillary Clinton
Blue Sky
Dolly Parton
Tom Petty
U2
Ben Harper
Nas
Big Head Todd & the
Monsters
2008 campaign song
Chris Dodd
Get Ready
The Temptations
Folk
2008 campaign song
2008 campaign song
John McCain
Barack Obama
Lee Greenwood
Mavis Staples
Rock
Rap/Hip-Hop
2008 campaign song
2008 campaign song. In concert, Joe
Chris Dodd
Rudy Guiliani
God Bless the USA
I'll Take You There
Reach Out (I'll be
there)
Rudie Can't Fail
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The Clash
Folk
New
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Strummer added a verse to the song after
RG adopted it: "Rudy Guiliani/Gotta get
away/Rudy Guiliani/Gotta Get Away
Wave/Punk
Earth, Wind & Fire
Stevie Wonder
2008 campaign song
2008 campaign song
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
2008 campaign song
2008 campaign song
2008 campaign song
Barack Obama
Hillary Clinton
John McCain
Shining Star
Signed, Sealed
Delivered (I'm Yours")
Small Town
Suddenly I See
Take a Chance on Me
2008 campaign song
2008 campaign song
Hillary Clinton
Barack Obama
Taking Care of Business
The Rising
2008 campaign song
Barack Obama
Aretha Franklin
R&B
2008 campaign song
2008 campaign song
2008 campaign song
2008 campaign, played by Huckabee on
bass at campaign rallies/events, Boston
guitarist Tom Scholz wrote Huckabee to
complain about him using one of their
songs without permission
2012 campaign song, Heart lawyered up for
a "cease and desist" letter, the campaign
chose it because his running mate's high
school nickname was "Sarah Barracuda."
2012 campaign song
2012 campaign song, The band asked
Gingrich to stop using it; he wouldn't, they
sued, he settled.
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Hillary Clinton
Think
We Take Care of our
Own
Yes, we can
You & I
Bruce Springsteen
Will.i.am
Celine Dion
Rock
Rap/Hip-Hop
Rock
Mike Huckabee
More than a Feeling
Boston
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John McCain
Mitt Romney
Barracuda
Born Free
Heart
Kid Rock
Rock
Rock
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Newt Gingrich
Eye of the Tiger
Survivor
2012 campaign song
Barack Obama
I'm Dreaming
Randy Newman
Rock
Standards/Ran
dom
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John Mellencamp
K.T. Tunstall
ABBA
Bachman Turner
Overdrive
Bruce Springsteen
Rap/Hip-Hop
New
Wave/Punk
Rock
Rock
Pop
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from artist
2012 campaign song. Another unauthorized
use of a song by a campaign. K'naan was
not amused.
Romney 2012
Wavin' Flag
K'Naan
Standards/Ran
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2016 campaign song
Bernie Sanders
America
Simon & Garfunkel
Folk
2016 campaign song
2016 campaign song. George Harrison's
estate issued a statement that basically said
that George was the equivalent of a human
jackhammer because that's how fast he was
probably spinning in his grave.
2016 campaign song
2016 campaign song
Mike Huckabee
Hello
Adele
Rock
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Donald Trump
Hillary Clinton
Donald Trump
Here Comes the Sun
Roar
Stranglehold
The Beatles
Katy Perry
Ted Nugent
Soul/Funk
Rock
Soul/Funk
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Political protest or tribute songs:
Protest or Tribute
Tribute to President James K. Polk
Recounts McKinley assassination
1980s commentary on Hoover's part in
creating the Great Depression
Anti-Hoover, song is written from the point
of view of an older man who lived through
the Great Depression.
Lyrics rewritten by the Byrds for their 1965
album Turn! Turn! Turn! To lament the
assassination of JFK.
President/C
andidate
James K. Polk
William
McKinley
Song/Album
James K. Polk
Artist
Genre
How to
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They Might Be Giants
Charlie Poole & the
North Carolina
Ramblers
Rock
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dom
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Annie
Rock
Freegal
Herbert Hoover
White House Blues
We'd like to thank you
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover
That Goddamn Herbert
Hoover
The Blind Robins
New
Wave/Punk
John F. Kennedy
He was a Friend of
Mine
The Byrds
Folk
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One of JFK's favorite songs
John F. Kennedy
Greensleeves
Various Artists
Folk
Homage to Gerald Ford
Anti-Nixon, from Taylor's 1997 album
Hourglass, about Nixon's departure from
the White House.
Anti-Nixon, released in 1972
Anti-Nixon, written as a protest song after
the 1970 Kent State shootings. Crosby once
stated that Young keeping Nixon's name in
the lyrics was "the bravest thing I ever
heard."
Anti-Nixon, written in 1971, but not
released on the album Songs That Made
America Famous until 1973, but had
difficulty finding a label to release it, as the
satirical lyrics are explicit.
Originally written as a sarcastic protest
song titled "Here's to the State of
Mississippi" in 1965, Ochs changed the
lyrics in 1971, including lines such as "the
speeches of the Spiro are the ravings of a
clown", a reference to Nixon's vitriolic vice
president, Spiro Agnew.
Gerald Ford
Funky President
James Brown
Rock
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Anti-Nixon, released in 1971
Anti-Nixon, the song was one of Wonder's
angriest political statements and was aimed
squarely at President Richard Nixon.
Carter claimed that Dylan's songs helped
him "appreciate the dynamism of change in
modern society."
Carter claimed that Dylan's songs helped
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon
Line 'em Up
Elected
James Taylor
Alice Cooper
Folk
Rock
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Richard Nixon
Ohio
Crosby, Stills, Nash &
Young
Folk
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Richard Nixon
Fight for Liberation
Patrick Sky
Folk
Richard Nixon
Here's to the state of
Richard Nixon
Phil Ochs
Richard Nixon
Impeach the President
The Honeydrippers
Folk
Standards/Ran
dom
Richard Nixon
You Haven't Done
Nothin'
Stevie Wonder
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Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
Like a Rollin' Stone
Lonesome Death of
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
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him "appreciate the dynamism of change in
modern society."
Carter claimed that Dylan's songs helped
him "appreciate the dynamism of change in
modern society."
Carter claimed that Dylan's songs helped
him "appreciate the dynamism of change in
modern society."
Written to encourage a beleaguered Jimmy
Carter
Anti-Reagan
Anti-Reagan song, on the 1982 album BeanSpill
Anti-Reagan, the song is a commentary on
the Bitburg controversy in 1985, where U.S.
president Ronald Reagan paid a state visit
to a German World War II cemetery where
numerous Waffen-SS soldiers were buried.
Issued as a single in the UK in 1985.
Anti-Reagan, written in 1985 at the height
of the Cold War
Anti-Reagan
When President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan
left Washington, D.C. in 1989 to return to
Los Angeles, "California, Here I Come" was
played as they boarded Air Force One.
Commentary on presidential elections,
released in 1986
Performed by Tom Petty for Gore after he
conceded the 2000 election
An entire album dedicated to George W.
Bush
On Young's 2006 album Living With War,
includes a chorus singing about various
Hattie Carroll
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Maggie's Farm
Bob Dylan
Folk
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Jimmy Carter
The Times they are a'
Changin'
Bob Dylan
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
Whip It
Any album
Devo
The Dead Kennedys
Ronald Reagan
If Reagan Played Disco
Minutemen
Folk
New
Wave/Punk
Punk
New
Wave/Punk
Ronald Reagan
The Ramones
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Bonzo goes to Bitburg
Ronald Reagan's
Birthday Present
Country Gentleman
The Jazz Butcher
John Mellencamp
New
Wave/Punk
New
Wave/Punk
Rock
Ronald Reagan
California, Here I Come
Various Artists
Standards/Ran
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Freegal
Ronald Reagan
Just Another Movie
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Al Gore
Won't Back Down
Tom Petty
Rock
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George W. Bush
American Idiot
Let's Impeach the
President
Green Day
Rock
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Neil Young
Folk
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George W. Bush
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reasons to impeach then-President of the
United States George W. Bush.
Anti-Bush and his policies
George W. Bush
When the President
talks to God
Anti-Trump
Donald Trump
I had a Dream
Bright Eyes
Loudon Wainwright
III
New
Wave/Punk
Standards/Ran
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AntiTrump