50 Best Country Songs About Snakes
Country Music with Snake Themes That Bite Back
There’s a certain way a snake shows up in a song that sticks with you. Sometimes it’s a warning slithering under the melody, sometimes it’s pure swagger, sometimes it’s the kind of danger you don’t clock until it’s already wrapped around you. Country writers have leaned on that image for decades, weaving it into tales that range from smoky barroom confessions to sharp-edged revenge tracks. A snake can be temptation, betrayal, or a force you learn to respect, and the best writers know how to coil all of that into three and a half minutes.
The sound doesn’t always stay fenced into one genre either. You’ll hear echoes of pop, rock, country, and R&B songs where the serpent sneaks into the lyric sheet, but country’s the place where it feels most at home. Fiddle lines twist like scales catching the light. Steel guitar bends mimic a slow, careful crawl. And in the right hands, that image goes from a cliché to something unsettling enough to hang around after the track fades.
Not every snake song is trying to scare you. Some are sly, some lean into humor, some wear the grit like armor. The hooks might grin, but the verses bite. These are the country tracks that coil around your head and refuse to leave, the ones that turn a familiar creature into a whole mood. Here are the best country songs about snakes.
Top 10 Country Treachery Songs
1. 'Before He Cheats'—Carrie Underwood
2. 'Snake Farm'—Ray Wylie Hubbard
3. 'Whiskey Lullaby'—Brad Paisley with Alison Krauss
4. 'Jolene'—Dolly Parton
5. 'Snakes Crawl at Night'—Charley Pride
6. 'I Hope You’re Happy Now'—Carly Pearce
7. 'You Lie'—The Band Perry
8. 'White Liar'—Miranda Lambert
9. 'Liar Liar'—The Avett Brothers
10. 'The Snake Song'—Billy Gilman
Country Music with Snake-Like People #21—30
21. 'She's a Snake'—Jason and the Scorchers
22. 'How Do I Live'—LeAnn Rimes
23. 'Snake'—R.L. Burnside
24. 'I Walk the Line'—Johnny Cash
25. 'Snakes'—Parker Millsap
26. 'Snake Handling Man'—Dale Watson
27. 'You Never Even Call Me by My Name'—David Allan Coe
28. 'A Woman's Rant'—The Cadillac Three
29. 'The Snake and the Farmer'—Jerry Reed
30. 'Lies'—Thompson Twins
Songs About Vipers and Deceit #31—40
31. 'The Viper'—The Struts
32. 'The Snake'—Al Wilson
33. 'Fishin' in the Dark'—The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
34. 'The Way You Lie'—Dierks Bentley
35. 'Liar's Lullaby'—Chris Young
36. 'Honky Tonk Badonkadonk'—Trace Adkins
37. 'Snakey'—Jerry Lee Lewis
38. 'Snake'—The Charlie Daniels Band
39. 'Rattlesnake'—The LACS
40. 'It Ain't My Fault'—Brothers Osborne
Country Songs About Snake People #41—50
41. 'Snake Handler'—Alabama
42. 'Snake Eyes'—The Band of Heathens
43. 'Snakeskin'—Tanner Adell
44. 'Whiskey and You'—Chris Stapleton
45. 'I Don't Know a Thing About Love'—Conway Twitty
46. 'I'm Not the One'—Keith Urban
47. 'The Devil Went Down to Georgia'—The Charlie Daniels Band
48. 'The Snake'—Townes Van Zandt
49. 'Rattlesnake'—Luke Combs
50. 'You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive'—Darrell Scott
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