50 Best Country Songs About Roses

Country Songs Featuring Roses

There’s something odd about roses in country music. They swing between being the sweetest symbol and the sharpest warning, and half the time they manage to carry both at once. You can picture them in a mason jar on a kitchen table or dropped in the dirt after a fight that went too far. That strange mix of pretty and painful is where the best tracks sit, and country artists have leaned on it for decades. Even when the flower isn’t the main subject, the imagery pulls through like a shortcut to all the things people struggle to say outright.

Not every track is tied to the garden or even mentions petals in a literal way. Some use the rose as a stand-in for heartbreak, memory, or the kind of longing that gets heavy to carry. Others lean into the cliché in a way that works because country has always been about owning the familiar. The same flower that shows up in pop, rock, country, and R&B songs finds new weight in twang and steel guitar. It’s that push and pull between beauty and ache that makes the theme stick.

The feeling behind these songs can be tender, bitter, or somewhere tangled in between. A rose in one track might feel like comfort, and in another it’s the exact opposite. That’s why the following picks fit the theme, even if some of them step sideways from the literal. Here are the best country songs featuring roses.

1. '(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden' by Lynn Anderson

2. 'Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses' by Kathy Mattea

3. 'The Rose' by Conway Twitty

4. 'A Good Year for the Roses' by George Jones

5. 'Wildflowers' by Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris

6. 'The Yellow Rose of Texas' by Gene Autry

7. 'Roses Are Red My Love' by Bobby Bare

8. 'Love Is a Rose' by Linda Ronstadt

9. 'Save the Roses' by Lee Brice

10. 'Wildwood Flower' by The Carter Family

11. 'Black Rose' by Waylon Jennings

12. 'Two Dozen Roses' by Shenandoah

13. 'Like a Rose' by Ashley Monroe

14. 'First Rose of Spring' by Willie Nelson

15. 'Give My Love to Rose' by Johnny Cash

16. 'I Just Came to Smell the Flowers' by Porter Wagoner

17. 'A Rose From a Bride's Bouquet' by Porter Wagoner

18. 'Paper Roses' by Marie Osmond

19. 'Dead Flowers' by Miranda Lambert

20. 'Bed of Roses' by Bon Jovi

21. 'Gas Station Roses' by Joshua Ray Walker

22. 'Roses in the Snow' by Emmylou Harris

23. 'Roses for Mama' by C.W. McCall

24. 'Flowers' by Chris Young

25. 'Like Red on a Rose' by Alan Jackson

26. 'I Kept the Roses' by Tenille Townes

27. 'Flowers on the Wall' by The Statler Brothers

28. 'Ramblin' Rose' by Nat King Cole

29. 'Liar's Roses' by Tammy Wynette

30. 'Rose in Paradise' by Waylon Jennings with Willie Nelson

31. 'New San Antonio Rose' by Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys

32. 'Yellow Roses' by Dolly Parton

33. 'Wildflowers and Wild Horses' by Lainey Wilson

34. 'The One Rose (That's Left in My Heart)' by Johnny Cash

35. 'Give Me Back My Rose' by The Louvin Brothers

36. 'Hey Rose' by Scotty McCreery

37. 'Pickin' Wildflowers' by Keith Anderson

38. 'Roses' by Mae Estes

39. 'Pansies' by Blake Shelton

40. 'Buy Me a Rose' by Kenny Rogers

41. 'Eleven Roses' by Hank Williams, Jr.

42. 'Wild Rose' by Kaitlin Butts

43. 'Holler Rose' by Pony Bradshaw

44. 'Roses' by Hunter Hayes

45. 'Roses Out of Season' by Porter Wagoner

46. 'Just Like a Rose' by Laura Cantrell

47. 'Pasadena Rose' by Vince Gill

48. 'Weed Instead of Roses' by Ashley Monroe

49. 'My Sweet Rose' by Bob Seger

50. 'I Will Forever Hate Roses' by Dolly Parton