Patriotic Songs

Not all songs about America are patriotic (ex. Little Pink Houses - John Mellencamp).  The following songs are about fighting for patriotic causes.

Seeds of Peace - Mark Erelli
"What's become of my country torn by contradiction
The spirit of freedom propped up by a culture of fear
Where it's unpatriotic to protest or even to question
Have we learned nothing from history or the last couple year"

The Times They Are A Changing - Bob Dylan
"Come senators, congressmen, please, heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside ragin'
It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin' "

Keep On Rocking In The Free World - Neil Young
"There's a lot of people sayin' we'd be better off dead
Don't feel like Satan, but I am to them
So I try to forget it, any way I can.
Keep on rockin' in the free world"

Born In The USA - Bruce Springsteen
 The Song covers the Vietnam War, a desolate countryside and a lost vet with "nowhere to run and nowhere to go". It is about a working class man in the midst of a spiritual crisis, in which man is left lost.  He has nothing left to tie him to society, and feels isolated from the government, and his family.
Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man

Fortunate Son -Creedence Clearwater Revival
The song is a counterculture era anti-war anthem, criticizing militant patriotic behavior and those who support the use of military force without having to "pay the costs" themselves (either financially or by serving in a wartime military.)  The song, released during the Vietnam War, is not explicit in its criticism of that war in particular, but the clear attacks on the elite classes (the families that give birth to "fortunate sons") of America and their withdrawal from the costs of nationalistic imperialism are easy to contextualize to that conflict. 
"Some folks are born, silver spoon in hand
Lord, don't they help themselves, y'all...
It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no millionaire's son, no, no
It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no fortunate one, no"

This Land Is Your Land - Pete Seeger
More behind the music.  This Land Is Your Land is the Woody Guthrie sing-along that’s arguably more popular than our national anthem. Both an eloquent description of our nation’s beauty and, as originally written, an expression of scorn for those who don’t see fit to share it
"In the squares of the city - In the shadow of the steeple
Near the relief office - I see my people
And some are grumblin' and some are wonderin'
If this land's still made for you and me." 

The Ballad Of Ira Hayes - Johnny Cash
It tells the story of Ira Hayes, one of the five Marines and one Navy Corpsman who became famous for having raised the flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima of World War II.
"Ira Hayes returned a hero,
Celebrated through the land,
He was wined and speeched and honored,
Everybody shook his hand,
But he was just a Pima Indian,
No water, no home, no chance,
At home nobody cared what Ira'd done,
And when did the Indians dance."