50 Best Country Songs About Sharks
Country Songs Featuring Sharks
There’s a strange tension when country artists tackle sharks. Not exactly fear, not pure novelty either, but something sitting in the overlap of danger and humor. You picture the teeth, the deep water, the looming presence that pulls at old fishing tales, and the music hangs there too. Sometimes the lyrics are playful, sometimes they tilt toward the darker side of survival, and other times the shark is more of a stand-in for something bigger. Like plenty of pop, rock, country, and R&B songs, the image doesn’t always need to be literal for it to stick.
Country has its way of making even a shark story feel like it belongs on a back porch. A twang behind the guitar softens the bite, turning menace into folklore. A chorus can feel like waves rolling in, a fiddle break like fins slicing the surface. The storytelling pulls you in whether the shark is real or imagined, and you can almost hear the crowd laughing at a punchline before sliding into silence at the next verse. It’s messy and oddly fitting, like a tale you’d expect to overhear at a dock after sundown.
Not every track is a straight shot into shark territory, but some sneak into the theme sideways and still fit the mood. Maybe the shark is more metaphor than monster, maybe it’s there as a prop in a rowdy barroom anthem, maybe it’s circling a character in a song who feels swallowed whole. Either way, the current runs through the same channel. Below are the country shark songs worth digging into.
Top 10 Predator Country Songs
1. 'The Pool Shark' by Dave Dudley
2. 'I'm a Shark' by Todd Burge
3. 'Baby Shark' by Banjo-Vie
4. 'Fins' by Jimmy Buffett
5. 'Blood on the Water' by Tyler Childers
6. 'The Ocean' by Sunny Sweeney
7. 'Something In The Water' by Carrie Underwood
8. 'Deep Water' by American Aquarium
9. 'Goin' Under' by Billy Currington
10. 'Red Dirt Road' by Brooks & Dunn
Country Songs About Watery Dangers #11 to 20
11. 'Alligator Alley' by Joe Diffie
12. 'Swamp Witch' by Jim Stafford
13. 'The Devil Went Down to Georgia' by Charlie Daniels Band
14. 'River of Pain' by Whiskey Myers
15. 'Down on the Corner' by Creedence Clearwater Revival
16. 'The Gambler' by Kenny Rogers
17. 'The Man in the Mirror' by Garth Brooks
18. 'Friends in Low Places' by Garth Brooks
19. 'Whiskey Lullaby' by Brad Paisley ft. Alison Krauss
20. 'Need You Now' by Lady A
Country Songs About Coastal Life #21 to 30
21. 'Toes' by Zac Brown Band
22. 'Pontoon' by Little Big Town
23. 'Knee Deep' by Zac Brown Band ft. Jimmy Buffett
24. 'Where the Boat Leaves From' by Kenny Chesney
25. 'A Pirate Looks at Forty' by Jimmy Buffett
26. 'Coastal' by Kenny Chesney
27. 'Ocean Front Property' by George Strait
28. 'Beachin'' by Jake Owen
29. 'Carolina' by Eric Church
30. 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' by Gordon Lightfoot
Straightforward Country Songs #31 to 40
31. 'Cold Blooded' by Morgan Wallen
32. 'Predator' by Hayes Warner
33. 'Wildfire' by Michael Martin Murphey
34. 'The Long Black Veil' by Lefty Frizzell
35. 'Ghost Riders in the Sky' by Johnny Cash
36. 'Thunder Rolls' by Garth Brooks
37. 'Folsom Prison Blues' by Johnny Cash
38. 'Bad Bad Leroy Brown' by Jim Croce
39. 'Cocaine Blues' by Johnny Cash
40. 'The Beast in Me' by Johnny Cash
Country Songs About Water #41 to 50
41. 'Water' by Brad Paisley
42. 'Fishin' in the Dark' by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
43. 'The River' by Garth Brooks
44. 'Waterbound' by Uncle Earl
45. 'She's Actin' Single' by Gary Stewart
46. 'Blue Water' by The Brothers Osborne
47. 'Whiskey River' by Willie Nelson
48. 'Mud on the Tires' by Brad Paisley
49. 'Deep in the Heart of Texas' by George Strait
50. 'Take Me to the River' by Al Green
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