I have loved reading about so many of the songs I knew then and many I had never heard or heard of before now. I graduated in '51. I just wish I could hear or even obtain copies of many of those listed in this thread. But does "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" qualify or did it come on too late? How about "Tony The Dago, A Son of The Beach" which was contemporary with "Der Fuehrer's Face," Spike Jones' "Beedlebaum," and "Tea For Two?" Then there is "Ballad of Thunder Road," from the Robert Mitchum movie of the same name; Frankie Laine's "Mule Train," and "Ghost Riders In The Sky." How about "John and Marsha," on which nothing is ever said but those two words? By the way, I believe this is the correct wording of "Battle of New Orleans" by Johnny Horton. I had this on an eight track cassette that I used as a test while servicing those popular machines in my electronics business in 1970 and must have heard it a thousand times:

"In 1814, we took a little trip,
along with Colonel Jackson, down the mighty Mississip.
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans,
and we fought the bloody British in the town of New 'Orleens.'"

"Well, we fired our cannons and the British kept a'comin,'
but there wasn't nigh as many as there was awhile ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin,'
down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico."

They ran through the briers and they ran through the brambles,
and they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go.
They ran so fast the hounds couldn't catch 'em,
down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico."

Slight correction to Mousethief's preferred stanza, "...till the barrel melted down, then we grabbed an alligator and FOUGHT another round." I was born to a soldier father in the Seventh Cavalry which was George Armstrong Custer's outfit at the time of his great faux pas on the Little Big Horn, hence my sobriquet, sonoftheseventh. Therefore, all things Custer and Seventh Cavalry are special to me, as "Please, Mr. Custer, I Don't Want To Go." Also the "Garryowen," an ancient Irish drinking song for which I was named, became the Seventh's regimental march, battle cry, and motto as depicted in the movie, "They Died With Their Boots On," starring Errol Flynn. Probably not an exact match to the title of this thread, but perhaps you will forgive me.