50 Best Country Songs About Pennsylvania

Top Country Tracks Connected to Pennsylvania

There’s a strange pull when you hear a song tied to Pennsylvania. It can feel like wide farmland stretching out past small towns, or the rust of old steel towns that left their mark long after the mills went quiet. Sometimes it sounds like mountains that carry a kind of weight in their silence. Country artists keep circling back to it, mixing nostalgia with grit, and it lands differently depending on who’s listening. Some of the music may not literally point straight at Pennsylvania, but the spirit fits the frame.

A lot of these songs run on the tension between leaving and staying. That restless energy that comes from highways cutting through rolling hills, or from the shadow of big cities like Philly and Pittsburgh sitting miles apart but still shaping the state’s voice. The same place that can feel small one night can stretch into something too big the next. It’s the kind of theme you’ll find in pop, rock, country, and R&B songs, but in this list the lean is toward country storytellers. That mix of place and mood makes the tracks click into something familiar without spelling it all out.

Pennsylvania in music feels messy and layered, the way memory usually works. You get the hometown pride, the heartache, the sense of chasing something that might always be a little out of reach. These country tracks catch that tension and pin it to melodies that feel both restless and grounded. Here are the best country songs tied to Pennsylvania.

1. 'Pennsylvania Coal Mine' by The Stone Coyotes

2. 'Philadelphia Lawyer' by Rose Maddox

3. 'A Pennsylvania Song' by Matthew Mole

4. 'Pennsylvania' by The Menzingers

5. 'South Pennsylvania Waltz' by 16 Horsepower

6. 'Harrisburg' by Josh Ritter

7. 'Take Me Back to Pennsylvania' by Conrad Fisher

8. 'Pennsylvania' by Jars of Clay

9. 'Coal City Blues' by The Menzingers

10. 'Susquehanna Breakdown' by Cabinet

11. 'Allentown' by Billy Joel

12. 'Home' by Dierks Bentley

13. 'Philadelphia' by Neil Young

14. 'Streets of Philadelphia' by Bruce Springsteen

15. 'Sailing to Philadelphia' by Mark Knopfler

16. 'Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania' by Guy Mitchell

17. 'Altoona' by Page McConnell

18. 'Smokey Joe of the Poconos' by Carbon Leaf

19. 'Fall in Philadelphia' by Hall & Oates

20. 'Pennsylvania' by Heart

21. 'You've Got a Friend in Pennsylvania' by New Found Glory

22. 'On the Road Again' by Willie Nelson

23. 'I'm a Little More Country Than That' by Easton Corbin

24. 'Where I Come From' by Alan Jackson

25. 'Take Me Home, Country Roads' by John Denver

26. 'My Tennessee Mountain Home' by Dolly Parton

27. 'Small Town Southern Man' by Alan Jackson

28. 'A Country Boy Can Survive' by Hank Williams Jr.

29. 'Country Roads Take Me Home' by Morgan Wallen

30. 'I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool' by Barbara Mandrell

31. 'Family Tradition' by Hank Williams Jr.

32. 'American Heartbeat' by Rascal Flatts

33. 'Born Country' by Alabama

34. 'The Gambler' by Kenny Rogers

35. 'God Bless the U.S.A.' by Lee Greenwood

36. 'Jackson' by Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash

37. 'Ring of Fire' by Johnny Cash

38. 'Mountain Music' by Alabama

39. 'My Home's in Alabama' by Alabama

40. 'On the Other Hand' by Randy Travis

41. 'Pennsylvania Polka' by Frankie Yankovic

42. 'Duquesne Whistle' by Bob Dylan

43. 'The Freight Wreck at Altoona' by Vernon Dalhart

44. 'Pittsburgh Town' by Pete Seeger

45. 'Amish Paradise' by Weird Al Yankovic

46. 'Pennsylvania 6-5000' by Glenn Miller

47. 'The Pennsylvania Song' by Wallace House

48. 'Philadelphia' by Elder Brother

49. 'Pittsburgh' by Mason Jennings

50. 'I'm in Pittsburgh and It's Raining' by The Cynics