50 Best Country Songs About Girls Growing Up
Country tracks that capture the shift from girlhood to growing older
There’s a strange pull in songs that follow the trail from summer afternoons to the first hints of real responsibility. It is not all nostalgia or all grit but something tangled between the two. You hear it in a voice that once sounded wide-eyed now landing harder on certain words, or in a fiddle line that feels worn down in spots. The story is still there, but the edges have frayed, and the picture looks different. These tracks carry the weight of birthdays that feel quieter than they should, phone calls home that go unanswered a little longer each time, and a sense that the road ahead might not loop back the way it used to.
Growing older in a small town means certain things change slower than you do. The corner store still smells like it did when you were thirteen, but the faces behind the counter might be strangers now. Lyrics start out playful then slip in lines you almost miss unless you’ve been through the same thing. It is in the way a chorus can sound like freedom one verse and like leaving too much behind the next. Some of these songs come from artists who never left home, others from ones who ran far, only to circle back with stories they did not plan on telling.
The pull of these tracks is similar to what people find in pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that capture turning points. There is no single mood running through them. Some are restless, some are proud, some have a quiet ache tucked between the hooks. They fit long drives, late nights, and those small moments when you realize you are not the same person who once sang along without thinking. Here are the best country songs for girls growing up.
Top 10 Girls Growing Up Country Songs
1. 'I Hope You Dance'—Lee Ann Womack
2. 'In My Daughter's Eyes'—Martina McBride
3. 'My Little Girl'—Tim McGraw
4. 'It Won't Be Like This For Long'—Darius Rucker
5. 'You're Gonna Miss This'—Trace Adkins
6. 'The House That Built Me'—Miranda Lambert
7. 'Never Grow Up'—Taylor Swift
8. 'Coal Miner's Daughter'—Loretta Lynn
9. 'Lady'—Brett Young
10. 'Don't Forget to Remember Me'—Carrie Underwood
Country Songs About Growing Up #11—20
11. 'The Best Day'—Taylor Swift
12. 'There Goes My Life'—Kenny Chesney
13. 'I Loved Her First'—Heartland
14. 'Then They Do'—Trace Adkins
15. 'Ready, Set, Don't Go'—Billy Ray Cyrus featuring Miley Cyrus
16. 'You'll Always Be My Baby'2014
Alan Jackson
17. 'This One's for the Girls'—Martina McBride
18. 'Fifteen'—Taylor Swift
19. 'Growing Up'—Thomas Rhett
20. 'The Man Who Loves You The Most'—Zac Brown Band
Girlhood and Coming of Age Songs #21—30
21. 'For My Daughter'—Kane Brown
22. 'You Can't Lose Me'—Faith Hill
23. 'Slow Down'—Nichole Nordeman
24. 'My Wish'—Rascal Flatts
25. 'Wide Open Spaces'—The Chicks
26. 'You're Gonna Be'—Reba McEntire
27. 'The Daughters'—Little Big Town
28. 'Something to Talk About'—Bonnie Raitt
29. 'I Wanna Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart'—Patsy Montana
30. 'Redesigning Women'—The Highwomen
Acoustic Country Songs for Girls #31—40
31. 'Who I Am'—Jessica Andrews
32. 'Dads and Daughters'—MaRynn Taylor
33. 'Butterfly Kisses'—Bob Carlisle
34. 'The Woman in Me (Needs the Man in You)'—Shania Twain
35. 'God Made Girls'—RaeLynn
36. 'Your Daughter'—Chase McDaniel
37. 'The Mother'—Brandi Carlile
38. 'My Father's Daughter'—Jewel featuring Dolly Parton
39. 'Somebody's Hero'—Jamie O'Neal
40. 'A Home'—The Chicks
Country Songs About Family and Girls #41—50
41. 'You're Gonna Be Somebody'—Travis Tritt
42. 'Like My Mother Does'—Lauren Alaina
43. 'The Girl You Think I Am'—Carrie Underwood
44. 'To The Guys That Date My Girls'—Thomas Rhett
45. 'The Older I Get'—Alan Jackson
46. 'Something in the Water'—Carrie Underwood
47. 'The Man'—Taylor Swift
48. 'Coat of Many Colors'—Dolly Parton
49. 'Humble and Kind'—Tim McGraw
50. 'Wild One'—Faith Hill
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