Top100 Songs that mention US presidents

Tori Amos - Jackie's Strength
Grant Lee Buffalo - Lone Star Song

'Louisiana 1927' by Randy Newman

Camper Van Beethoven - "Joe Stalin's Cadillac" ["L.B.J.’s Cadillac - We’re just peein’ on the side of the road in L.B.J.’s Cadillac" or something]. That Ronald Reagan bit in the aforemention "Sweethearts" seems kinda creepy since the dementia. There are surely more - they certainly make endless references to non-US cold war era presidents, anonymous anti-communists, Jack Ruby, etc.

Gil Scott Heron - "The Revolution Will Not be Televised" ["The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary" and more tenuously "There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock news, and no pictures of hairy-armed women liberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose"]

Whoops. That'll teach me not to text-search by artist alone. :(

Also, has anybody mentioned the theme from *All in the Family* yet ("mister we could use a man like Hoibert Hoover again")? I'm too sleepy to check. I don't know what it's called, though.

57. heaven 17 - "groove thang"
Democrats are out of power
Across that great wide ocean
Reagan’s president elect
Fascist God in motion
Generals tell him what to do
Stop your good time dancing
Train their guns on me and you
Fascist thang advancing

And if we can count presidential siblings, 61 can be Senator Bobby, "Wild Thing."

I've grown tired of living Nixon's mess.

...Somebody put their fingers in the President's ears,
It wasn't too much later they came out with Johnson's wax...

Jackie... Jackie... Hold Onto His Brains and so on

"Lay down your Jackson and you will see the secrets..."

It mentions all the presidents, up to Bush 1. The verses consist of wishing them all merry christmas one by one, then the chorus goes:

"Talkin' bout that Panama Canal
Talkin' bout that Panama Canal
Noriega is a fugitive, but he was once somebody's pal
We're talkin' 'bout that Panama Canal."

Recorded early 90s obviously.

Album: TMBG "Lincoln" (surprised no one jumped on that)

Song: Big Dipper "Hey, Mr. Lincoln" ("...why the long face?")

adding:

"I Want To Be Jackie Onassis" - Human Sexual Response

Also: Johnny Horton - Battle of New Orleans

In 1814 we took a little trip, Along with Colonel Jackson
down the mighty Mississip... He got promoted to president at a later date.

-- gypsy mothra (meetm...), July 24th, 2005.
good taste , good song

Phish - "Dear Mrs. Reagan"

Hmm... HSR version I'm familiar with dates from same period, can be found on Rhino's D.I.Y. Boston disc. Always thought they originated it... or could there be confusion similar to the "ween" version of "gin & juice" that turns out to be The Gourds?

Adding Lennon again, in "God" : "I don't believe in Kennedy"

Also, from the Hair soundtrack, "Happy Birthday Abe-y Baby."

Well, the song is a bit too obscure for google to come to our rescue but the more I think about this, the more I think you're right. I'll give it to ya.

I don't know why I keep mulling this over, but now I'm sure you're correct.

Also: (if this counts) Happy Birthday Mr. President - Marilyn Monroe

Cypress Hill, "I Wanna Get High": "Tell Bill Clinton to go and inhale!"
My Dog Popper, "Acid Flashback" (Reagan suffers one!)
Country Joe & The Fish, "Super Bird" ("It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a man insane/It's my President, LBJ!"; and even HE drops some acid at song's end!)