50 Best Country Songs About Knights
Best Country Songs on Knights
There is something strange about hearing knights slip into country music. The image is half storybook, half barroom tale, and it bends depending on who is singing it. Sometimes it feels like armor swapped for denim, honor tangled with heartbreak, or battles turned into late-night confessions. A few tracks lean straight into the myth, while others brush against the idea without naming it. Some songs are not literally tied to knights at all, yet the spirit still fits the theme.
The thing with knights in this space is how they show up as symbols instead of costume. One song frames the knight as a flawed hero who never quite saves the day. Another paints him as stubborn and proud, dragging a code of honor into places it does not belong. Country has always been good at letting myth rub against grit, and knights slide into that role easily. You can find echoes of this same energy in pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that carry old-world symbols into modern sound.
What makes these tracks click is the way they let the knight figure feel human instead of polished. The armor is heavy, the choices are messy, and the stories lean more toward dust and sweat than fairy tale endings. That tension gives the songs their pull and makes them linger past a first listen. Here are the best country songs on knights.
Top 10 Chivalrous Country Songs
1. 'The Coward of the County' by Kenny Rogers
2. 'Should've Been a Cowboy' by Toby Keith
3. 'The Ballad of Ira Hayes' by Johnny Cash
4. 'The Battle of New Orleans' by Johnny Horton
5. 'Travelin' Soldier' by The Chicks
6. 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' by George Jones
7. 'Chivalry Is Dead' by Jesse Barrera
8. 'A Knight in Shining Armor' by Lulu Belle & Scotty Wiseman
9. 'King of the Road' by Roger Miller
10. 'The Gambler' by Kenny Rogers
Songs About Country Music Honor and Loyalty #11—20
11. 'I Drive Your Truck' by Lee Brice
12. 'The Ones That Didn't Make It Back Home' by Justin Moore
13. 'Concrete Angel' by Martina McBride
14. 'He Walked on Water' by Randy Travis
15. 'Long Black Train' by Josh Turner
16. 'Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly' by Aaron Tippin
17. 'Don't Take the Girl' by Tim McGraw
18. 'The House That Built Me' by Miranda Lambert
19. 'Some Gave All' by Billy Ray Cyrus
20. 'Soldier's Last Letter' by Ernest Tubb
Classic Country Music Songs for Knights #21—30
21. 'A Dear John Letter' by Jean Shepard and Ferlin Husky
22. 'Five O'Clock World' by The Vogues
23. 'The Three Bells' by The Browns
24. 'P.T. 109' by Jimmy Dean
25. 'God Bless the U.S.A.' by Lee Greenwood
26. 'In Color' by Jamey Johnson
27. 'If You're Reading This' by Tim McGraw
28. 'Letters From Home' by John Michael Montgomery
29. 'Riding with Private Malone' by David Ball
30. 'The Sinking of the Reuben James' by Woody Guthrie
Country Music Hits About Honor and Valor #31—40
31. 'America the Beautiful' by Ray Charles
32. 'This Land Is Your Land' by Woody Guthrie
33. 'Where Were You' by Alan Jackson
34. 'Okie from Muskogee' by Merle Haggard
35. 'Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue' by Toby Keith
36. 'Simple Man' by Lynyrd Skynyrd
37. 'Ring of Fire' by Johnny Cash
38. 'The Devil Went Down to Georgia' by The Charlie Daniels Band
39. 'The Long Way Home' by Garth Brooks
40. 'Humble and Kind' by Tim McGraw
Top Country Songs About Chivalry #41—50
41. 'More Than a Name on a Wall' by The Statler Brothers
42. 'Go Rest High on That Mountain' by Vince Gill
43. 'The Christian Life' by The Byrds
44. 'Whiskey Lullaby' by Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss
45. 'The Ride' by David Allan Coe
46. 'My Old Man' by Zac Brown Band
47. 'Soldier' by Gavin DeGraw
48. 'The Soldier' by The Byrds
49. 'My Father's Hands' by Tony Lucca
50. 'Just the Guy to Do It' by Toby Keith
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