50 Best Country Songs About Eagles
Country Music Celebrating the Spirit of Eagles
There’s a strange pull that happens when an eagle cuts across the sky. It’s not exactly pride, not entirely awe, but something knotted in the middle. You’re half-lost in thought, maybe leaning against a fence post or parked on some backroad, and the sight jolts you into stillness. The right song can land in that exact moment. The kind that stretches out the pause and leaves the air feeling different. These tracks don’t just use the eagle as scenery, they make it part of the weight in the air, the freedom in your chest, or the quiet warning in the wind.
Nobody stands there thinking in neat metaphors. It’s windburned cheeks, the sound of wings carrying farther than you thought they could, a shadow slipping over a hayfield. And somewhere in the mix, you remember the other places you’ve heard that feeling bottled up in sound. It might be an old outlaw country cut with grit under the fingernails. It could be something from pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that fold wildness into the melody without overexplaining it. These aren’t neat postcard moments. They sit in that unshaped space between reverence and rawness.
Not every eagle song feels clean and grand. Some are rough-edged, a little weathered, loud in spots where they could have been quiet. A few are nearly unpolished enough to feel like campfire talk caught on tape. They hold that restless, watching energy and play it like it was meant to rattle the walls or make the horizon look bigger than it did a minute ago. Here are the best country songs featuring eagles in their stories and sound.
Top 10 Eagle Songs
1. 'Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly'—Aaron Tippin
2. 'Eagle When She Flies'—Dolly Parton
3. 'The Eagle and the Hawk'—John Denver
4. 'Lyin' Eyes'—Eagles
5. 'Peaceful Easy Feeling'—Eagles
6. 'Take It Easy'—Eagles
7. 'I Can't Tell You Why'—Vince Gill
8. 'Desperado'—Clint Black
9. 'Already Gone'—Tanya Tucker
10. 'Tequila Sunrise'—Alan Jackson
Essential Eagle Country Songs #11—20
11. 'Take It to the Limit'—Suzy Bogguss
12. 'Heartache Tonight'—John Anderson
13. 'New Kid in Town'—Trisha Yearwood
14. 'Best of My Love'—Brooks & Dunn
15. 'The Sad Café'—Lorrie Morgan
16. 'The Last Lonely Eagle'—New Riders of the Purple Sage
17. 'Thrasher'—Neil Young
18. 'Fly Like an Eagle'—Steve Miller Band
19. 'Wings of a Dove'—Ferlin Husky
20. 'The Vulture'—Labi Siffre
Classic Country Eagle Songs #21—30
21. 'Go Birds'—Holdyn Barder
22. 'Eagle in a Tree'—Kevin Karr
23. 'Eagle'—The Cat Empire
24. 'I Was an Eagle'—Laura Marling
25. 'Where Eagles Dare'—Misfits
26. 'Wings of an Eagle'—Russell Morris
27. 'Eagle and the Hawk'—Hollies
28. 'Eagle on a Stone'—Gillian Welch
29. 'Eagle of the Sky'—Dwight Yoakam
30. 'Soar Like an Eagle'—Alabama
Eagle Country Songs List #31—40
31. 'Like a Bird on the Wing'—Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
32. 'Freedom's Eagle'—Marty Robbins
33. 'Where the Eagle Soars'—Waylon Jennings
34. 'The Eagle Flies Alone'—Arch Enemy
35. 'The Eagle Has Landed'—Alan Jackson
36. 'On the Wings of an Eagle'—Merle Haggard
37. 'Eagle Flight'—Johnny Cash
38. 'Riding the Eagle's Wings'—Willie Nelson
39. 'Bird on a Wire'—Johnny Nash
40. 'Eagle'—ABBA
The Ultimate Eagle Songs #41—50
41. 'Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying'—Gerry and the Pacemakers
42. 'Crying in the Rain'—The Everly Brothers
43. 'The Boxer'—Simon & Garfunkel
44. 'If I Could'—Simon & Garfunkel
45. 'Little Sparrow'—Dolly Parton
46. 'Bluebird'—Miranda Lambert
47. 'The Birds and the Bees'—Jewel Akens
48. 'El Condor Pasa (If I Could)'—Simon & Garfunkel
49. 'Three Little Birds'—Bob Marley & the Wailers
50. 'White Bird'—It's a Beautiful Day
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