I am just at the mulling it over stage. I am looking at the Burl Ives Song Book, Fireside Book of American Songs, and so on. Some songs I am considering:
When I first Came to This Land or Oleanna
Soldier, Soldier Will You Marry Me
Betsy From Pike
Yippee Ti Yi Yoo or Streets of Laredo
Shenandoah or Rolling Home
Song of the Fishes
Yankee Doodle
America the Beautiful
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Erie Canal

Good to hear from you, too Gargoyle
Dick is long gone - seven years in January. I am oldish, but not ancient - approaching, but not yet 80.