50 Best Country Songs About Cheating
Infidelity Anthems from the Heartland That Hit Like a Shot of Whiskey
There’s a certain kind of late-night silence that sets the stage for these songs. The headlights cutting through some nowhere backroad. The guilt, the thrill, the almost cartoonish drama of it all. Country’s always had a thing for cheatin’ hearts, and it doesn’t dress them up with excuses or metaphors. It leans into the mess, the motel rooms, the lipstick traces, and the shaky voice on the answering machine. You can smell the smoke and hear the door slam before the first verse lands. These tracks don’t offer therapy. They offer truth or at least the version that sounds good with a steel guitar behind it.
Some of them ride in smooth like a slow dance you shouldn't be having. Others stomp like a woman in heels tracking down a truck that parked somewhere it shouldn’t have. There’s something sticky in the lyrics, something that clings. These songs come from bars where pop, rock, country, and R&B songs blur together on the jukebox and nobody flinches when a cheating ballad gets picked three times in a row. The best ones don’t need to build suspense. They start with the wreckage and let you piece together the crash.
You don’t need to be in the middle of anything messy to feel these hit. Maybe you're fine, maybe you're not, maybe it’s 2 AM and this is the only thing that feels honest. Country knows how to say what the clean-cut tracks won’t. It’s the genre that never pretends to have clean hands. These are the cheating songs that don’t flinch and don’t fix it. Here's the list that brings the smoke, the damage, and the unforgettable hooks.
Top 10 Country Songs
1. 'Jolene'—Dolly Parton
2. 'Before He Cheats'—Carrie Underwood
3. 'Your Cheatin' Heart'—Hank Williams
4. 'Stay'—Sugarland
5. 'Whoever's in New England'—Reba McEntire
6. 'Does He Love You'—Reba McEntire with Linda Davis
7. 'You Ain't Woman Enough (to Take My Man)'—Loretta Lynn
8. 'She's Actin' Single (I'm Drinkin' Doubles)'—Gary Stewart
9. 'White Liar'—Miranda Lambert
10. 'Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?'—Shania Twain
Country Songs About Infidelity #11—20
11. 'The Window Up Above'—George Jones
12. 'Blame It on Your Heart'—Patty Loveless
13. 'Who's Cheatin' Who'—Alan Jackson
14. 'On the Other Hand'—Randy Travis
15. 'She Just Started Liking Cheatin' Songs'—John Anderson
16. 'The Cold Hard Facts of Life'—Porter Wagoner
17. 'Reasons I Cheat'—Randy Travis
18. 'Holding Her and Loving You'—Earl Thomas Conley
19. 'I Hope'—Gabby Barrett
20. 'I Let Her Lie'—Daryle Singletary
A List of Country Songs About Cheating #21—30
21. 'You Lie'—The Band Perry
22. 'Talkin' in Your Sleep'—Crystal Gayle
23. 'A Woman Knows'—Kenny Chesney
24. 'Kiss an Angel Good Mornin''—Charley Pride
25. 'Papa Loved Mama'—Garth Brooks
26. 'You Win Again'—Johnny Cash
27. 'Broken Promise Land'—Jerry Lee Lewis
28. 'A Picture of Me (Without You)'—George Jones
29. 'I Wish I Felt This Way at Home'—Dolly Parton
30. 'A Little Past Little Rock'—Lee Ann Womack
Country Songs About Cheaters #31—40
31. 'Cheater, Cheater'—Joey + Rory
32. 'Got My Name Changed Back'—Pistol Annies
33. 'It's a Cheating Situation'—Moe Bandy
34. 'The Midnight Oil'—Barbara Mandrell
35. 'The Jealous Heart'—Kitty Wells
36. 'There's a Honky Tonk in the Middle of the Block'—The Chicks
37. 'Whispering Waltz'—Sierra Ferrell
38. 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry'—Hank Williams
39. 'After the Fire Is Gone'—Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty
40. 'Crazy Arms'—Ray Price
Country Songs About Infidelity and Heartbreak #41—50
41. 'Fist City'—Loretta Lynn
42. 'You'll Think of Me'—Keith Urban
43. 'Cold, Cold Heart'—Hank Williams
44. 'D-I-V-O-R-C-E'—Tammy Wynette
45. 'Pocket Full of Gold'—Vince Gill
46. 'Whiskey Lullaby'—Brad Paisley with Alison Krauss
47. 'When You Were Cheating'—Sara Evans
48. 'The Bed You Made'—Kacey Musgraves
49. 'Cheating'—The Judds
50. 'I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You)'—Hank Williams
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