50 Best Country Songs About England
Country Music That Captures Life in England
There’s a certain feeling you get when hearing twangy guitars paired with rainy streets and pub chatter in the background. It’s not the wide-open prairie or the neon glow of Nashville, but something softer, older, stitched into stone walls and quiet countryside roads. You picture boots on cobblestones, voices in an unfamiliar drawl singing over familiar British skies. Some songs make the contrast feel almost cinematic, others lean into the grit of small towns where the tea’s hot, the pint’s cold, and the wind cuts through you in winter.
These tracks carry the weight of two worlds meeting. The lilt of the banjo folds into stories about fog rolling off the moors, and steel guitar slides behind lines about train rides past sheep-dotted hills. Sometimes you hear it in the way a chorus swells, not with the rush of the American South, but with a kind of steady endurance you find in people used to damp mornings and short days. Country has a way of absorbing whatever place it touches, and here it blends with English storytelling in ways pop, rock, country, and R&B songs rarely attempt.
There’s no glossy postcard here. The music keeps its boots muddy, its melodies a little weatherworn, its heart split between the open road and the narrow lane. Some tracks lean romantic, others poke at the quirks of everyday life, and a few carry a melancholy that’s harder to place. All of them make England feel both familiar and strange in a way worth hearing. Here are the best country songs that channel life in England.
Top 10 English Country Songs
1. 'Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty'—Florrie Forde
2. 'A New England'—Kirsty MacColl
3. 'Long Haired Lover from Liverpool'—Little Jimmy Osmond
4. 'Every Beat of My Heart'—Rod Stewart
5. 'England Swings'—Patty Duke
6. 'The Bonny Bunch of Roses'—Fairport Convention
7. 'A Design for Life'—Manic Street Preachers
8. 'This Is England'—Kano
9. 'Rule, Britannia!'—Thomas Arne
10. 'Wha'll be King but Cherlie?'—Silly Wizard
Best English Country Ballads #11—20
11. 'Let England Shake'—PJ Harvey
12. 'My Country Too'—Oysterband
13. 'Pram Town'—Darren Hayman
14. 'Peterborough'—The Long Blondes
15. 'Sovereign Light Café'—Keane
16. 'The Lark Ascending'—Ralph Vaughan Williams
17. 'Oh England, My Lionheart'—Kate Bush
18. 'I'm a Ramblin' Man'—Waylon Jennings
19. 'If I Didn't Have You'—Randy Travis
20. 'Wichita Lineman'—Glen Campbell
Classic UK Country Hits #21—30
21. 'Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain'—Willie Nelson
22. 'Jolene'—Dolly Parton
23. 'Stand by Your Man'—Tammy Wynette
24. 'Crazy'—Patsy Cline
25. 'Take Me Home, Country Roads'—John Denver
26. 'I Walk the Line'—Johnny Cash
27. 'Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys'—Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson
28. 'Hey, Good Lookin''—Hank Williams
29. 'I Can't Stop Loving You'—Ray Charles
30. 'Rhinestone Cowboy'—Glen Campbell
English Folk Country Songs #31—40
31. 'Cowboy Take Me Away'—The Chicks
32. 'Wide Open Spaces'—The Chicks
33. 'Tennessee Whiskey'—Chris Stapleton
34. 'The Devil Went Down to Georgia'—The Charlie Daniels Band
35. 'The Gambler'—Kenny Rogers
36. 'Jackson'—Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash
37. 'Islands in the Stream'—Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers
38. 'Highwayman'—The Highwaymen
39. 'Green, Green Grass of Home'—Porter Wagoner
40. 'On a Bus to St. Cloud'—Gretchen Peters
Popular English Country Music Songs #41—50
41. 'Fancy'—Reba McEntire
42. 'Goodbye Earl'—The Chicks
43. 'Neon Moon'—Brooks & Dunn
44. 'That Don't Impress Me Much'—Shania Twain
45. 'Strawberry Wine'—Deana Carter
46. 'How Do I Live'—LeAnn Rimes
47. 'Sold The Grundy County Auction Incident'—John Michael Montgomery
48. 'Friends in Low Places'—Garth Brooks
49. 'Achy Breaky Heart'—Billy Ray Cyrus
50. 'Take This Job and Shove It'—Johnny Paycheck
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