50 Best Country Songs About Cleaning
Country playlist that makes cleaning feel less like a chore
There’s a weird space your brain hits when you're knee-deep in clutter and running on caffeine and passive aggression. Laundry baskets tipped over, dishes stacked like a dare, and somewhere in the background, a vacuum wheezing like it’s one cough away from retirement. That’s when you hit play. You need something with twang and stomp and maybe a little petty rage. Not to motivate, really. To match the energy of wiping dried gunk off a stove you don’t even remember using.
Cleaning doesn’t get its own genre, but it has a very specific vibe. Somewhere between revenge soundtrack and mid-week meltdown. Country nails that better than most. It leans into the grit. It sounds like sweat on the back of your neck and the kind of stubborn pride that kicks in around hour two of scrubbing baseboards for no reason. It fits alongside pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that get thrown into playlists meant to survive Saturday mornings. But country hits different when your hands smell like lemon disinfectant and you’re singing louder than the blender.
Some songs sound like they were made to blast from a Bluetooth speaker perched on a kitchen counter covered in paper towels and bad decisions. They don’t pretend cleaning is cute. They make it tolerable. Sometimes even fun, if the chorus is strong enough. These are the country tracks that weirdly work when the only plan is to clear out the mess and feel like you did something today. Here’s a list of the best country cleaning songs to throw on when you’re done putting it off.
Top 10 Cleaning Songs
1. 'Washday Blues'—Dolly Parton
2. 'It All Comes Out in the Wash'—Miranda Lambert
3. 'Spring Cleaning'—Maddie & Tae
4. 'The House That Built Me'—Miranda Lambert
5. 'House Again'—Hudson Westbrook
6. 'Make Me a Mop'—Cody Johnson
7. 'Dust on the Bottle'—David Lee Murphy
8. 'Are You Washed in the Blood'—Alan Jackson
9. 'Clean Slate'—Donovan Woods
10. 'Clean Up Your Own Backyard'—Elvis Presley
Country Music for Household Chores #11—20
11. 'I'm Gonna Be a Cowboy for a Little While'—Jason Aldean
12. 'A Clean Heart'—Margaret Pleasant Douroux
13. 'I'm Movin' On'—Rascal Flatts
14. 'Starting Over'—Chris Stapleton
15. 'Hard Work'—John Handy
16. 'The Housewife's Alphabet'—Peggy Seeger
17. 'Laundromat'—Bombadil
18. 'Dirty Laundry'—Don Henley
19. 'Give Me A Clean Heart'—Gwen Richardson
20. 'Cleaning Windows'—Van Morrison
Country Songs About New Beginnings #21—30
21. 'Brand New Day'—Ryan Adams
22. 'Clean Up'—Wade Bowen
23. 'A New Set of Wings'—Trisha Yearwood
24. 'Dust My Broom'—Elmore James
25. 'Everything's Gonna Be Alright'—Kenny Chesney
26. 'A Little Bit of a Mess'—Stapleton
27. 'Home'—Dierks Bentley
28. 'Something More than Free'—Jason Isbell
29. 'I'm Coming Home'—Johnny Cash
30. 'That Summer'—Garth Brooks
Country Songs About Keeping Your Home Clean #31—40
31. 'My House'—Kacey Musgraves
32. 'Our House'—Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
33. 'Pickin' Up the Pieces'—Average White Band
34. 'The House That We Built'—Trace Adkins
35. 'The Clean Up Crew'—Willie Nelson
36. 'Dirty Man'—Laura Lee
37. 'Too Many Dirty Dishes'—Albert Collins
38. 'Old Broom'—Wailing Souls
39. 'House Cleaning'—The Spaniels
40. 'Let's Clean Up the Ghetto'—The Philadelphia International All-Stars
Country Songs That Feel Like a Fresh Start #41—50
41. 'Get a New Broom and Sweep the Blues Away'—Duke Ellington & Ivy Anderson
42. 'Shake, Rattle and Roll'—Bill Haley & His Comets
43. 'Yakety Yak'—The Coasters
44. 'Washed Up Rock Star Factory Blues'—Corb Lund
45. 'When I'm Cleaning Windows'—George Formby
46. 'Whistle While You Work'—Adriana Caselotti
47. 'The Wash'—Toby Keith
48. 'Spring Cleaning'—Fats Waller
49. 'Get Your House in Order'—Ricky Skaggs
50. 'I Saw the Light'—Hank Williams
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