American ones:
American War of Independence
- Yankee Doodle, made at first to mock George Washington but picked up by the Americans:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br-ARX5bLPICivil War
- Dixie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB-o5ACJhuc- Union Dixie, a lyric swap of Dixie by the Union:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhSzuhdIkuE- Battle Cry of Freedom:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW4ZwyYJYbQ- same song, lyrics-swapped by the Confederacy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdMLb3eiWWg- Marching Through Georgia, referencing Sherman's march to the sea in Georgia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAFEWL0-1sc- When Johnny Comes Marching Home:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtEqgG2EdTs- John Brown's Body, a joking song by a Scottish-American Union regiment whose captain happened to be named John Brown, like the radical abolitionist preacher who butchered slavery-supporters in Kansas and got caught and executed by the state of Virginia trying to raid a military post for weapons to arm a slave rebellion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jso1YRQnpCI; it was considered vulgar and the lyrics changed, which you might recognize as the Battle Hymn of the Republic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSiVjlknuSw- The Yellow Rose of Texas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LArGlfEVYqM - a folk song from the Civil War, sung by soldiers about a mixed-race ("yellow") girl waiting for them back in Texas
World War I
- Over There:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKx9oPyh0KMVietnam War
- The Ballad of the Green Beret:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5WJJVSE_BE
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