I collected the lyrics to twenty historical campaign songs from an album produced in the 60s.

I think Nixon was the last presidential candidate to have a campaign song that used his name in the lyrics (I’m not counting “Dole Man”). But the golden age seems to have been from McKinley to Coolidge.

1. Keep Cool and Keep Coolidge (1924)

In a quaint New England farmhouse on an early summer's day,
A farmer's boy became our chief in a homely, simple way.
With neither pomp nor pageantry, he firmly met the task.
To keep him on that job of his, is all the people ask, that's all they ask, so ... keep ...

Cool and keep Coolidge is the slogan of today.
Keep cool and keep Coolidge for the good old U.S.A.
A lot of politicians cannot do a thing but knock,
But Calvin Coolidge is a man of action and not talk, so just

Keep cool and keep Coolidge in the White House four years more.
We have a chance to do it in this year of '24.
He's been tried, he's never wanting, he is giving us his best.
Keep cool and keep Coolidge is our country's mighty test.

2. Hooray for Bill McKinley (1900)

Things are wearing a warm complexion,
But McKinley is going to win.
He'll be the hero of this election;
The way he'll beat him will be a sin.

He will smash him to such perfection,
They can never get up again.
Mack and Teddy are going to win this political fight
And that is right!

Cause the questions that now are pending,
And are causing contortions of the brain,
Can only be settled by a cool-headed man like Mack.

William Bryan's campaign is ending;
We'll have no Democrat to reign.
For you know that good times is something they always lack
And that's a fact!

But there's no use of our going round it,
Bill McKinley's the winning thing,
And it's certainly too amusing,
To see those Demies a-tryin' to sing.

And when everything is excitement,
And that good old election's done,
And we've got it, the votes for Mack and Teddy
Will have victory ten to one.

Oh, they'll then be a grand procession,
And cakewalking to beat the band,
Such parading with torchlights blazing,
Hailing good times for Uncle Sam.

And whenever I meet a Demy,
I don't care if he kills me dead,
I'll yell "Hooray for Bill McKinley
And the brave Rough Rider Ted!"

And in between McKinley and Coolidge there’s “Roosevelt the Cry” and “Get on the Raft with Taft” and “Wilson, That’s All.”

Some of the 19th-century songs are also good and have that 19th-century sound.

3. Clay and Frelinghuysen (1844)

Clay is a patriot through and through, and so is Frelinghuysen too.
They are men of truth and candor, can't be hurt by local slander.

[Refrain]
Hoorah, hoorah, the country's risin', Henry Clay and Frelinghuysen.
Hoorah, hoorah, the country's risin', Henry Clay and Frelinghuysen.

No better two names can be found, though you search the country round.
More power to the clan comprisin', Henry Clay and Frelinghuysen.

[Refrain]

The locals'd rather hear us groan, but that we'll leave to them alone.
With Harry Clay and Frelinghuysen, the way we'll beat'em is sure surprising.

[Refrain]

4. Tyler and Tippecanoe (1840)

Now the Whigs at the coming election
Will carry our candidates through.
They've made the judicious selection
Of Tyler and Tippecanoe.

They say that he lives in a cabin,
And that he drinks hard cider, too;
Well, what if he does, I am certain
He's the hero of Tippecanoe.

So again and again fill your glasses;
Bid Martin Van Buren adieu.
We'll now please ourselves and our lasses,
And we'll vote for old Tippecanoe.

So let us be up and a-doin',
And cling to our cause brave and true.
I'll bet you a fortune we'll beat him
With Tyler and Tippecanoe.

(This isn’t the same as the better-known “Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too” song).

A final, funnier category I’ll include is the negative campaign song. Benjamin Harrison was the grandson of William Henry “Tippecanoe” Harrison, the president whose song is above. In that election he beat the incumbent president Martin Van Buren, who is mocked in the final song #6. Benjamin Harrison managed to overcome the insults though and defeated the incumbent president Grover Cleveland despite losing the popular vote, and Cleveland would win the rematch in 1892 to become the first president elected to non-consecutive terms.

5. His Grandfather’s Hat (1888)

His grandfather's hat is too big for his head,
but Ben tries it on just the same.
It fits him too quick, which has oft times been said
with regard to his grandfather's fame.

It was bought long ago, and it made a pretty show
In that jolly hard cider campaign,
But it don't fit, even a little bit,
on Benjamin Harrison's brain.

6. Van Buren (1840)

Who never did a noble deed?
Who of the people took no heed?
Who is the worst of tyrants' breed?
Van Buren!

Who rules us with an iron rod?
Who moves at Satan's beck and nod?
Who heeds not man? Who heeds not God?
Van Buren!

(Instrumental) Van Buren!

Who would his friends his country sell?
Do other deeds to base to tell?
Deserves the lowest place in hell?
Van Buren!

And when November comes around,
Who then shall hear the fateful sound?
Magician thou art wanting found!
Van Buren!