For Presidents Day, Part II: Hail to the Chief

Here's an update on our Presidents Day effort to list songs that mention U.S. Presidents.

Two trends are emerging:
1. Richard Nixon was a significant muse for songwriters of a certain generation.
2. Al Stewart owns the POTUS song space--he's got more songs than anybody.

Help out by sending suggestions using the "Submit a song" link on the right side of this page, or emailing us at classicsrocksubmit@gmail.com. Or post them on Twitter with the hashtag #PresidentSongs. We'll post the whole list on Monday.

Apollo by the Alan Parsons Project, an instrumental that includes a snippet of JFK's 1961 "Man on the Moon" speech.

Like William McKinley by Al Stewart. "I'll sit on my porch like William McKinley/And I'll let the world come to me..."

Russians by Sting. "Mr. Reagan says we will protect you/I don't subscribe to this point of view..."

Abraham, Martin and John by Dion. The Abraham is Lincoln, the John is Kennedy (and the Martin is MLK).

I Do the Rock by Tim Curry. "Carter, Begin and Sadat/Brezhnev, Deng and Castro..."

I Saw It On T.V. by John Fogerty. You'll find two presidents in this song, only one of them mentioned by name:
1. "A man named Ike was in the White House/Big black limousine..."
2. "A young man from Boston set sail the new frontier/And we watched the dream dead-end in Dallas/We buried innocence that year..."

Teddy Roosevelt's Guns by Silver Mt. Zion. "Shop and save/Beneath the western sun/Bought and paid for with Teddy Roosevelt's guns..."

Campaigner by Neil Young. "Even Richard Nixon has got soul..."