50 Best Country Songs About Horses
Country Tracks That Capture Life With Horses
There’s a certain way the world tilts when a horse steps into the frame. You can smell the dust even before the wind kicks it up. There’s the creak of leather, the shuffle of hooves, and that steady look in their eyes that makes time feel slower. Some songs lean into the quiet, where the chorus feels like an open pasture and the verses carry the weight of the trail. Others run headlong into the rush, galloping across steel strings and fiddle runs that refuse to slow down. Horses have a way of pulling the story forward without even trying.
The thing is, a horse track doesn’t live in a single lane. You’ll find the same pull in pop, rock, country, and R&B songs, each one carrying that mix of grit and grace in its own way. Some make you feel like you’re riding into town with the sun in your face, others like you’re standing in the barn at dusk wondering what tomorrow’s ride will bring. They work because they’re grounded in something real. Hoofbeats might be literal in one track and purely metaphor in the next, but the pulse is always there if you’re listening for it.
It’s not always clean or perfect. Sometimes the reins slip, sometimes the trail’s rough, sometimes the ride makes no sense until you’re looking back. That’s where the best ones live, right in the middle of motion and memory. These are the country songs that catch that feeling and let it run. Here are the best Country Songs About Horses.
Top 10 Horse Country Songs
1. 'Old Town Road'—Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus
2. 'High Horse'—Kacey Musgraves
3. 'Beer for My Horses'—Toby Keith & Willie Nelson
4. 'Wildflowers and Wild Horses'—Lainey Wilson
5. 'Tennessee Stud'—Johnny Cash
6. 'The Horse Nobody Could Ride'—Joey + Rory
7. 'If Heartaches Were Horses'—George Strait
8. 'Wildfire'—Michael Martin Murphey
9. 'Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)'—Big & Rich
10. 'White Horse'—Taylor Swift
Country Tracks With Horse Themes #11—20
11. 'Back in the Saddle Again'—Gene Autry
12. 'A Horse With No Name'—America
13. 'Just Like Them Horses'—Reba McEntire
14. 'He Rides The Wild Horses'—Chris LeDoux
15. 'The Strawberry Roan'—Marty Robbins
16. 'Rodeo'—Garth Brooks
17. 'A Horse Called Music'—Willie Nelson
18. 'No Reins'—Rascal Flatts
19. 'Wild Palomino'—Zac Brown Band
20. 'Let That Pony Run'—Pam Tillis
Horse Country Music From #21—30
21. 'Horses Are Faster'—Ian Munsick
22. 'Silver Stallion'—The Highwaymen
23. 'Horses'—Keith Urban
24. 'Ponies'—John Denver
25. 'Good Horses'—Lainey Wilson featuring Miranda Lambert
26. 'That Buckin' Song'—Robert Earl Keen
27. 'Goodbye Old Paint'—Michael Martin Murphey
28. 'Ride Me Back Home'—Willie Nelson
29. 'Broken Horses'—Brandi Carlile
30. 'She Rides Wild Horses'—Kenny Rogers
Country Songs About Horses and Cowboys #31—40
31. 'Horses in Heaven'—Kylie Frey featuring Randy Houser
32. 'No Horse To Ride'—Luke Grimes
33. 'WildHorse'—RaeLynn
34. 'The Cowboy In the Continental Suit'—Marty Robbins
35. 'Buckskin Stallion Blues'—Townes Van Zandt
36. 'One Hand in the Riggin'—Chancey Williams
37. 'Chestnut Mare'—The Byrds
38. 'Run for the Roses'—Dan Fogelberg
39. 'That Old Paint'—Linda Ronstadt
40. 'Faster Horses (The Cowboy And The Poet)'—Tom T. Hall
Horse Songs From Country Stars #41—50
41. 'Open the Gate'—Zach Bryan
42. 'Wild Horses'—Garth Brooks
43. 'Waiting for Wild Horses'—Arlo McKinley
44. 'Comanche (The Brave Horse)'—Johnny Horton
45. 'Since She Started to Ride'—Jonathan Richman
46. 'Ballad of a Runaway Horse'—Emmylou Harris
47. 'Which Way Does That Old Pony Run'—Lyle Lovett
48. 'Mustang'—Cameron Hawthorn
49. 'A Cowboy Knows How'—Flatland Cavalry
50. 'Horses On The Beach'—Brian Kelley
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