List of ambiguous patriotic songs

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This is an incomplete list of songs, which can or may never satisfy any objective standard for completeness. Revisions and additions are welcome.

An ambiguous patriotic song is a song about one's country that does not preach the traditional themes of a strictly patriotic song, yet lacks the harsh, directly critical nature of a protest song.

Such songs almost always have words. Some may be thought-provoking, ironic, partisan, sorrowful, wistful, or merely humorous. Others (such as Take Me Out to the Ball Game) refer to one's country only in distant metaphor. Many are parodies, which may or may not be intended seriously. One theme often encountered is the human cost of warfare, past or present; another is nostalgia for the defeated side of a past civil war.

This list is a counterpart to two other Wikipedia lists, List of patriotic songs and List of protest songs, and it is positioned between those two.

Contents 1 List by country 1.1 Canada 1.2 England 1.3 Ireland 1.4 Pakistan 1.5 United States 1.6 Australia

[edit] List by country

[edit] Canada

• "Blame Canada"

[edit] England

• "The English are Best" by Flanders and Swann
• "Her Majesty"
• "Penny Lane"
• "The Roast Beef of Old England"

[edit] Ireland

• "Danny Boy"
• "The Patriot Game"

[edit] Pakistan

• "Ehtesaab - Junoon"
• "Dharti Kay Khuda - Junoon"
• "Jilawatan - Call"

[edit] United States

• "America (Leonard Bernstein song)"
• "America (Paul Simon song)"
• "American Bad Ass"
• "American Dream"
• "American Girl"
• "American Pie"
• "Americans in Courdoroys"
• "American Soldier"
• "An American Trilogy (Mickey Newbury)"
• "American Tune"
• "Battle of New Orleans"
• "Be Kind to Your Web-Footed Friends" (parody of Stars and Stripes Forever)
• "Big Yellow Taxi"
• "The Bonnie Blue Flag"
• "Born in the U.S.A."
• "City of New Orleans"
• "Courtesy of the Red, White, & Blue"
• "Dixie"
• "Don't Tread On Me"
• "The End of the Innocence"
• "Fortunate Son"
• "Free Bird"
• "Have You Forgotten"
• "Home on the Range"
• "Home Sweet Home"
• "I Just Came Back From A War"
• "Last Train to Clarksville"
• "Livin' on a Prayer"
• "Living in America"
• "Look Back America"
• "Love the One You're With"
• "Made in the U.S.A."
• "Morning Morgantown"
• "Pink Houses
• "R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A."
• "Real American"
• "The Rising"
• "Rockin' in the Free World"
• "Solidarity Forever"
• "Song for America"
• "Song of the Patriot"
• "Streets of Philadelphia"
• "Sweet Baby James"
• "Take Me Out to the Ballgame"
• "Takin' My Country Back"
• "The Taliban Song"
• "Somebody's Someone"
• "This Land Is Your Land"
• "Travelin Soldier"
• "Undivided"
• "Uneasy Rider"
• "Wanted Dead or Alive"
• "We're an American Band"
• "We Shall Overcome"
• "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (American version)
• "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)"
• "Woodstock"

[edit] Australia

• "Land Down Under" by Men at Work
• "Great Southern Land" by Icehouse