50 Best Country Songs About Fences
Country Tracks that Use Fences as the Frame for a Story
There’s a strange kind of poetry in fences. They keep things in, they keep things out, and sometimes they fall apart in the middle of a storm. You can be driving through farmland or sitting on a back porch staring at one that leans a little, and it starts to mean more than wood and nails. In country music, a fence can be the quiet backdrop for heartbreak, a symbol of boundaries someone keeps crossing, or the place where neighbors lean in to trade the latest gossip. It’s the same way pop, rock, country, and R&B songs can pull one object into focus and suddenly it feels like the whole story.
Fences in these tracks aren’t pristine white boards shining in the sun. They’ve got chipped paint, rust on the hinges, and maybe a few spots patched with whatever was lying around. They’re where kids dare each other to climb, where an argument flares up in the middle of a summer night, or where someone leaves their boots on one side and never comes back for them. You hear them in the lyrics and you picture the grass pressed down from someone pacing, the sound of a gate creaking when nobody’s around.
Some songs treat a fence like the line between two lives that can’t meet again. Others turn it into a resting place, somewhere a person leans with a beer and a story that drifts until the stars come out. There’s a quiet ache in how they sit in the background, holding their ground while everything else changes. Here are the best country songs that put fences at the center of the scene.
Top 10 Fence Songs
1. 'Don't Fence Me In'—Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters
2. 'Sittin' on a Bar Stool, Sittin' on a Fence'—George Strait
3. 'I'm Just Sitting on a Fence'—The Rolling Stones
4. 'Build a Big Fence'—Brenda Lee
5. 'Picket Fences'—Hawthorne Heights
6. 'The Border'—Willie Nelson
7. 'Try That in a Small Town'—Jason Aldean
8. 'Settling Down'—Miranda Lambert
9. 'Coming Home To You'—MacKenzie Porter
10. 'Dirt'—Florida Georgia Line
Country Music About Boundaries #11—20
11. 'Picket Fence'—Summer Dean
12. 'Fences'—Craig Morrison
13. 'Picket White Fence'—Kip Moore
14. 'If These Walls Could Talk'—Joe Gaines
15. 'Walls Fall Down'—Zach Williams ft. Lee Brice
16. 'The Good Ones'—Gabby Barrett
17. 'Colder Weather'—Zac Brown Band
18. 'Take a Back Road'—Rodney Atkins
19. 'Fix What You Didn't Break'—Nate Smith
20. 'Lost'—Bailey Zimmerman ft. The Kid LAROI
Country Songs About Finding Your Way #21—30
21. 'Highway Don't Care'—Tim McGraw with Taylor Swift
22. 'I'm Moving On'—Rascal Flatts
23. 'Amarillo by Morning'—George Strait
24. 'I Walk the Line'—Johnny Cash
25. 'Wagon Wheel'—Old Crow Medicine Show
26. 'Drift Away'—Dobie Gray
27. 'On the Road Again'—Willie Nelson
28. 'Follow Your Arrow'—Kacey Musgraves
29. 'I Can't Stop Loving You'—Ray Charles
30. 'Free and Easy (Down the Road I Go)'—Dierks Bentley
Country Music About New Horizons #31—40
31. 'The House That Built Me'—Miranda Lambert
32. 'Where the Green Grass Grows'—Tim McGraw
33. 'Born to Run'—Bruce Springsteen
34. 'Wide Open Spaces'—The Chicks
35. 'God's Country'—Blake Shelton
36. 'Lost and Found'—Brooks & Dunn
37. 'Walk a Little Straighter'—Billy Currington
38. 'Where I Find God'—Larry Fleet
39. 'This Cowboy's Hat'—Chris LeDoux
40. 'My Town'—Montgomery Gentry
Country Songs About The Journey #41—50
41. 'Long Haired Country Boy'—Charlie Daniels Band
42. 'Some of It'—Eric Church
43. 'Take Me Home, Country Roads'—John Denver
44. 'Whiskey Lullaby'—Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss
45. 'The Devil Went Down to Georgia'—Charlie Daniels Band
46. 'I'm a Ramblin' Man'—Waylon Jennings
47. 'Travelin' Soldier'—The Chicks
48. 'God Bless the USA'—Lee Greenwood
49. 'Chicken Fried'—Zac Brown Band
50. 'I've Always Been Crazy'—Waylon Jennings
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