50 Best Country Songs About Earth
Country Music Celebrating the Land We Stand On
There’s a strange pull that comes from hearing a song that feels rooted in the ground itself. Not the sweeping cinematic kind where the horizon stretches forever, but the dirt-under-your-fingernails kind. The kind that smells like rain hitting dry soil or the ache of boots after walking a fence line. These tracks carry a weight that makes you slow down without realizing it. They don’t smooth out the edges. They sit in the dust, the wind, the sunburn, and the quiet that comes after a storm rolls through.
Sometimes it’s tender, sometimes rough around the edges. One minute you’re hearing a ballad that treats the earth like a confidant. The next, a stomping verse that rattles along like a freight train through wheat country. In the same way pop, rock, country, and R&B songs can each capture different shades of love, these songs catch the many faces of land and sky. Some lean nostalgic, some feel like they’re warning you, and some are just plain wild in their devotion to the open spaces.
There’s no single mood here. A few of these tracks hum with reverence, others push forward with a grit that could shake dust from old barn walls. Together they map out the connection between people and the ground beneath them in a way that sticks with you long after the last note fades. Here are the best country songs honoring the earth.
Top 10 Country Songs
1. 'Take Me Home, Country Roads'—John Denver
2. 'Seminole Wind'—John Anderson
3. 'Paradise'—John Prine
4. 'Where the Green Grass Grows'—Tim McGraw
5. 'This Land Is Your Land'—Woody Guthrie
6. 'The Land'—George Jones
7. 'Fishin' in the Dark'—Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
8. 'I Saw God Today'—George Strait
9. 'Rocky Mountain High'—John Denver
10. 'Don't Go Near the Water'—Johnny Cash
Country Songs About Nature #11—20
11. 'Ends of the Earth'—Ty Myers
12. 'Home'—Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros
13. 'Go to the Woods'—Dar Williams
14. 'Blue Ridge Mountains'—Fleet Foxes
15. 'Hole in the World'—The Eagles
16. 'The River'—Garth Brooks
17. 'Sweet Summer Loving'—Dolly Parton
18. 'My Own Kind of Hat'—Alan Jackson
19. 'Southern Nights'—Glen Campbell
20. 'The River'—Joni Mitchell
Country Music Hits on the Planet #21—30
21. 'Wildflowers'—Tom Petty
22. 'Tough Old Bird'—Promised Land
23. 'Fields of Gold'—Sting
24. 'Pass It on Down'—Alabama
25. 'God’s Country'—Blake Shelton
26. 'That’s the Way Love Goes'—Merle Haggard
27. 'Home to You'—John Michael Montgomery
28. 'Down to the River'—Charlie Peacock
29. 'I’d Rather Be a Cowboy'—Toby Keith
30. 'Country Girl (Shake It for Me)'—Luke Bryan
Country Songs About Earth's Beauty #31—40
31. 'Bless the Broken Road'—Rascal Flatts
32. 'Big Yellow Taxi'—Joni Mitchell
33. 'Where the Bluebird Sings'—George Jones
34. 'The Earth's Lament'—The New Christy Minstrels
35. 'Dirt'—Florida Georgia Line
36. 'The Trees'—Rush
37. 'Something in the Water'—Carrie Underwood
38. 'Carolina in My Mind'—James Taylor
39. 'Green Green Grass of Home'—Porter Wagoner
40. 'Rocky Top'—The Osborne Brothers
Country Songs About the Natural World #41—50
41. 'Don't It Make You Wanna Go Home'—Joe South
42. 'The Gambler'—Kenny Rogers
43. 'Take Me to the Country'—Conway Twitty
44. 'Wagon Wheel'—Old Crow Medicine Show
45. 'The Devil Went Down to Georgia'—The Charlie Daniels Band
46. 'I'm a Little Bit Country'—George Strait
47. 'My Home's in Alabama'—Alabama
48. 'The Sun Don't Lie'—Vince Gill
49. 'My Father's Hands'—Garth Brooks
50. 'Roll On'—Alabama
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