Immigration remains one of the hot political issues of the year, despite the irony of the country’s founding. The very men who forged our Constitution were immigrants, for we are all different from the Native Americans who inhabited the land before the explorers came.

The most famous of the immigrants is, of course, Christopher Columbus, an Italian who stumbled across the New World while sailing under Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain. He has gained such renown that he has numerous cities named in his honor, as well as his own holiday.

Columbus has also been mentioned in dozens of songs, including 115 by Bob Dylan dream and Loudon Wainwright Kings and Queens. British new wave artist Graham Parker, a contemporary of Elvis Costello and The Police, even named an entire album after the explorer, called Goodbye Columbus.

Here are ten more famous explorers that have been referenced in popular songs by well-known artists.

ponce de leon from Hall and Oates

This Spanish Voyager appears in Boredom in the mountains from the duo’s debut album.

courteous the assassin by Neil Young

The man who conquered the Aztecs is the subject of this song from zumaa very underrated record from the early seventies.

Dr Livingstone I guess by Moody Blues

This European, famous for teaming up with Henry Clark to survey Africa, is the subject of a song by the British band In search of the lost chord.

Magellan Swing by dirty projectors

The first man to sail around the world provides the title character on a track on the alternative group’s 2012 self-titled album.

francis drake by Sammy Agar

browsing‘ is the theme that alludes to the British explorer, and the album light roast is the seventeenth effort from the veteran rocker.

lewis and clark by C.W. McCall

Two of the first boys to explore the Mississippi region have the same last names as the two men who Convoy the singer writes in this melody.

henry hudson by Nico

exile dream is an appropriate title for an album that mentions a scout, which serves as the title for this song.

De Soto’s Son by Animal Collective

The Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto is the reference to the title of this song by campfire songs.

Sir Walter Raleigh by the beatles

“I’m So Tired” moans John Lennon in this classic white albumafter which he curses the main character for having discovered tobacco.

Marco Polo by Bow Wow

The most famous Asian explorer is the title of a song by the eighties Japanese rock band, who in this song talk more about the game than the man.