50 Best Country Songs About Getting Cheated On
Country songs that capture the sting of betrayal
There’s a particular punch in the gut that comes when you realize someone you trusted has been lying to your face. It’s not the cinematic heartbreak from a movie where everything feels poetic. It’s messier. Like pacing the kitchen at 2 a.m., reading and rereading a text that doesn’t make sense until it suddenly does. The kind of hurt that makes you both furious and hollow, where a song can feel like it’s naming the exact ache in your chest. These tracks live in that headspace. They lean into the raw edges and skip the sugarcoating.
Nobody’s walking through this kind of pain like it’s a quick plot twist you can shrug off. It’s hearing a steel guitar hit a sour sweet note that mirrors the pit in your stomach. It’s lyrics that sound like they were scribbled in a crumpled notebook the night everything fell apart. You hear it in voices that quiver with quiet fury or spit fire through clenched teeth. The same way pop, rock, country, and R&B songs can each frame heartbreak in their own light, country has a way of grounding it in small details that cut deeper than you’d think. A slammed door, an empty seat, a sudden silence at the dinner table.
Some of these songs seethe, some wallow, some spark an energy you didn’t know you still had. They can make you want to scream into the steering wheel or sink into the couch with the lights off. They’re the ones that remind you heartbreak isn’t neat and betrayal has its own strange rhythm. Here are the best country songs for when you’ve been two-stepped around.
Top 10 Cheating Country Songs
1. 'Before He Cheats'—Carrie Underwood
2. 'Jolene'—Dolly Parton
3. 'Your Cheatin' Heart'—Hank Williams
4. 'The Thunder Rolls'—Garth Brooks
5. 'Whoever's in New England'—Reba McEntire
6. 'White Liar'—Miranda Lambert
7. 'You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)'—Loretta Lynn
8. 'Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?'—Shania Twain
9. 'Blame It on Your Heart'—Patty Loveless
10. 'Does He Love You'—Reba McEntire and Linda Davis
Country Infidelity Songs #11—20
11. 'I Hope'—Gabby Barrett
12. 'Stay'—Sugarland
13. 'She's Actin' Single (I'm Drinkin' Doubles)'—Gary Stewart
14. 'The Window Up Above'—George Jones
15. 'You Lie'—The Band Perry
16. 'Holding Her and Loving You'—Earl Thomas Conley
17. 'Whispering Waltz'—Sierra Ferrell
18. 'I Just Started Hatin' Cheatin' Songs Today'—Moe Bandy
19. 'Gaslighter'—The Chicks
20. 'I'm Gonna Sleep with One Eye Open'—Dolly Parton
Country Heartbreak Betrayal Songs #21—30
21. 'A Woman Knows'—Kenny Chesney
22. 'Fist City'—Loretta Lynn
23. 'Who's Cheatin' Who'—Alan Jackson
24. 'She Just Started Liking Cheatin' Songs'—John Anderson
25. 'Dirty Laundry'—Carrie Underwood
26. 'I Let Her Lie'—Daryle Singletary
27. 'D-I-V-O-R-C-E'—Tammy Wynette
28. 'On the Other Hand'—Randy Travis
29. 'I May Hate Myself in the Morning'—Lee Ann Womack
30. 'Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town'—Kenny Rogers
Country Cheating and Infidelity Songs #31—40
31. 'Guilty as Can Be'—Cody Johnson
32. 'The Midnight Oil'—Barbara Mandrell
33. 'Papa Loved Mama'—Garth Brooks
34. 'Goodbye Earl'—The Chicks
35. 'Give It Away'—George Strait
36. 'Your Cheating Mind'—Webb Pierce
37. 'Does My Ring Hurt Your Finger'—Charley Pride
38. 'Don't Cheat in Our Hometown'—Ricky Skaggs
39. 'Consider Me Gone'—Reba McEntire
40. 'What Room Was the Holiday In'—Tim McGraw
Cheating in Country Music Songs #41—50
41. 'Cheatin''—The Kendalls
42. 'You've Never Been This Far Before'—Conway Twitty
43. 'Cheater, Cheater'—Joey + Rory
44. 'Pocket Full of Gold'—Vince Gill
45. 'All These Years'—Sawyer Brown
46. 'Rosemary'—Sierra Ferrell
47. 'I've Got a Right to Cry'—Webb Pierce
48. 'Just One Time'—Don Gibson
49. 'Let 'em Burn'—Emily Scott Robinson
50. 'I'll Go Stepping Too'—Emmylou Harris
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