Tricky Dick's Greatest Hits - Songs About or Referring To Richard Nixon

[Steve M.]

"Bad Moon Rising," Creedence Clearwater Revival

John Fogerty wrote it on Election Night, 1968, when the returns were all in.

"Ohio," Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

Neil Young's song about the Kent State killings put the blame on the White House - "Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming."

"Southern Man," Neil Young

Young followed up "Ohio" with a scathing indictment of Southern voters who took to Nixon's race baiting.

"Sweet Home Alabama," Lynyrd Skynyrd

Lynyrd Skynyrd's answer song to "Southern Man" declared that Watergate did not bother them.

"Gimme Some Truth," John Lennon

Lennon lashed out at all the "softhead-yellow-bellied son[s] of Tricky Dicky."

"You Haven't Done Nothing," Stevie Wonder

And, he hadn't. This is the only song here to address Nixon in the second person.

"Young Americans," David Bowie

Do you remember your President Nixon?

"Cuba Si, Nixon No," Simon and Garfunkel

This is an outtake from the Bridge Over Troubled Water sessions that was left unreleased - for obvious reasons.

And while not really about Nixon, Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire" mentions Nixon twice - the only person other than John F. Kennedy to be so distinguished.
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"I imagine if there had been a good rap group in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics." -- Richard Nixon, 1990