High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 19th-century protest songs dealt for the most part, with three key issues: War, and the American Civil War in particular (such as "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye" from Ireland, and its American variant, "When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again", among others); The abolition of slavery ("Song of the Abolitionist" and "No More Auction Block for Me", among others) and women`s suffrage, both for and against in both Britain and the U.S.