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Here are a few of my favorites.

"Six Days On the Road" by Dave Dudley (1963)--Not exactly rock and roll, but it's my favorite song from the Sixties. It celebrates individual freedom and monogamy as well as contempt for bureaucratic regulators.
"God, Country, and My Baby" by Dorsey Burnette (1961)--At the height of the 1961 Berlin crisis, a serviceman is ready to be shipped "across the Rhine" to to defend the West.
"West of the Wall" by Toni Fisher (1962)--This song about the Berlin wall was a chart hit that remained a popular "oldie" in some markets.
"Take the Time" by the Shangri-Las (1967)--This pro-Vietnam War record was the last to be released by The Shangri-Las, a vocal group that had a string of hits in the mid-1960's.
"Wish You Were Here, Buddy" by Pat Boone (1966)--Boone's send-up of the war protesters got some airplay in this area in the fall of 1966.
"The Universal Coward" by Jan and Dean (1965)--Taking a break from singing about surfing and hot rods, Jan and Dean came up with a devastating rebuttal to Buffy Sainte Marie's egregious "Universal Soldier."
"The Dawn of Correction" by The Spokesmen (1965)--A powerful rejoinder to Barry Maguire's "Eve of Destruction."
"Love That Bomb" by Dr. Strangelove & The Fallouts (1964)--a paean to nuclear weapons.
"Tennessee" by Carl Perkins (1955)--Perkins reminds listeners that the first atomic bomb was built in Tennessee.
"The Ballad of Pancho Lopez" by Lalo Guerrero (1955)--Guerrero's tale of a poor Mexican boy who rises from poverty to success through hard work and entrepreneurship sold well in Los Angeles.
"Midnight Mary" by Jerry Cole (1963)--A song that celebrates the American dream. An ambitious young man finds a job and then sets out to make money, acquire a home, and marry his girl friend. An antidote to songs about losers such as the Four Seasons' "Dawn" and Dickie Lee's "Patches" that, for some reason, were big hits at the time.
"Welfare Cheese"--Emmanual Lasky (1963)--Government agencies used to provide huge chunks of cheese to the needy. The singer is asking JFK to give him some.
"Shake it Over, Sputnik"--Billy Hogan & the Twi-Lighters (1958)--"Well, move over, Mr. Muttnik, you've got to make room; yeah, shake it over, Sputnik, for the US moon. Rockin' 'round the globe at a terrible pace, Alabama's contribution to the conquest of space."