50 Best Country Songs About Scotland

Best Country Songs Tied to Scotland

There’s a strange pull when country artists sing of Scotland. It’s not always literal, sometimes it’s a borrowed image, a passing reference, or even just the echo of rolling hills that fits the mood. Country music has long played with landscapes, and when Scotland slips in, it feels like the wide sky of one place meeting the weathered ground of another. Some tracks lean into tradition, others feel like they stumbled across Celtic threads without meaning to, and yet they all land in the same restless space.

It can sound unexpected at first, country twang bending into Scottish lore, but the mix works in a raw way. Maybe it’s the shared obsession with storytelling, maybe it’s how both styles thrive on loss and longing. Even songs that come from pop, rock, country, and R&B songs somehow shape the atmosphere if the imagery lines up. A fiddle line can tilt Celtic, a lyric can drop a place name, and suddenly the track holds that northern air. Not every one of these picks spells it out in the title, but the energy still connects.

Some of these songs read like postcards, others feel like overheard stories told in a pub after closing time. A few might even surprise you with how well they carry the same heartache and grit that Scotland wears like weather. What ties them together is less about geography and more about mood, the way certain sounds pull your head toward stone streets and green fields. Here are the best country songs tied to Scotland.

1. 'Mull of Kintyre' by Wings

2. 'I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)' by The Proclaimers

3. 'Caledonia' by Dougie MacLean

4. 'Loch Lomond' by Runrig

5. 'Scotland the Brave' by The Corries

6. 'Flower of Scotland' by The Corries

7. 'Wild Mountain Thyme' by The Chieftains

8. 'I Belong to Glasgow' by Will Fyffe

9. 'Auld Lang Syne' by Robert Burns

10. 'The Skye Boat Song' by The Marlettes

11. 'The Wee Gallus Fowk' by The Humblebums

12. 'The Road & The Miles to Dundee' by Andy Stewart

13. 'The Northern Lights of Aberdeen' by The Mill Weavers

14. 'Glencoe' by Jim MacLeod and His Band

15. 'The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond' by The Corries

16. 'Donald Where's Your Troosers?' by Andy Stewart

17. 'Coming Through the Rye' by Jean Redpath

18. 'A Scottish Soldier' by Andy Stewart

19. 'My Ain Folk' by Valerie Dunbar

20. 'The Dark Island' by Leigh Garden

21. 'Dignity' by Deacon Blue

22. 'These Are My Mountains' by The Alexander Brothers

23. 'The Rowan Tree' by The Alexander Brothers

24. 'My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose' by Robert Burns

25. 'Annie Laurie' by The Alexander Brothers

26. 'Bonnie Mary of Argyle' by The Alexander Brothers

27. 'Haste Ye Back' by Carl Wilson

28. 'Lochinvar' by Carl Wilson

29. 'Ye Banks and Braes' by Carl Wilson

30. 'The Roads and Miles to Dundee' by Carl Wilson

31. 'Bonnie Lassie, Will Ye Go' by The Corries

32. 'Mary Morison' by Robert Burns

33. 'John Anderson My Jo' by Robert Burns

34. 'The Bluebells of Scotland' by The Alexander Brothers

35. 'The Massy' by Billy Connolly

36. 'Auld Scotch Sangs' by The Corries

37. 'Grannie's Heilan' Hame' by Sydney Devine

38. 'The Soldier's Return' by Sydney Devine

39. 'Bonnie Kirkwall Bay' by Jim MacLeod and His Band

40. 'The Road to the Isles' by The Corries

41. 'Amazing Grace' by The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards

42. 'A Man's a Man for A' That' by Robert Burns

43. 'The Braes o' Balquhidder' by John Williamson

44. 'The Welly Boot Song' by Billy Connolly

45. 'The De'il's Awa Wi' Th' Exciseman' by Robert Burns

46. 'I Love Lassie' by Harry Lauder

47. 'Farewell to Whisky' by Dougie MacLean

48. 'The Battle of Stirling Bridge' by The Corries

49. 'My Home' by The Trailenders

50. 'Scotland Forever' by Sydney Devine