50 Best Country Songs About Sunrise
Top Country Sunrise Songs to Start the Day
There’s a strange thing that happens when the sky starts cracking open with light. It feels a little too early for clarity, but you’re stuck in it anyway. You’re rubbing your eyes, sipping coffee that never kicks in fast enough, and the right track plays. The kind that makes the horizon feel bigger than it really is. Sunrise has its own rhythm, and country music catches it in a way that leans into quiet roads, fields waking up, and that small shift where night finally gives up.
Not every track is going to spell out dawn or daylight. Some lean toward love, loss, or long drives, yet the way they sound fits the shape of a rising sun. You hear it in the slow burn of a ballad or the steady climb in a fiddle line. It can be the same kind of feeling found in pop, rock, country, and R&B songs where the theme isn’t literal but the energy lines up. Country artists especially know how to bend that moment into something bigger, like a soundtrack for mornings that feel stretched thin and wide.
These songs work for different moods, whether you’re watching the sun break while alone on the porch or half awake on the way to work. Some hit with quiet warmth, some carry that restless pulse that feels like daylight rushing in too soon. They land in that in-between where a new day feels both heavy and alive. Here are the best country songs about sunrise.
Top 10 Sunrise Country Songs
1. 'Sunrise' by Morgan Wallen
2. 'Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset' by Luke Bryan
3. 'Sunrise' by Ryan Bingham
4. 'Me or the Dawn' by Tyler Braden
5. 'Slow Burn Sunrise' by The Cadillac Three
6. 'I'll Be Here in the Morning' by Townes Van Zandt
7. 'Good Morning Beautiful' by Steve Holy
8. 'Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down' by Johnny Cash
9. 'Amarillo by Morning' by George Strait
10. 'Sunrise Tells the Story' by Midland
More Country Songs for Dawn #11 to 20
11. 'Sunrise' by James Arthur
12. 'Early Morning Breeze' by Dolly Parton
13. 'Good Day' by Paul Brandt
14. 'Morning Sun' by Brett Eldredge
15. 'Love & Sunsets' by Zac Brown Band
16. 'Something More than Free' by Jason Isbell
17. 'Days Go By' by Keith Urban
18. 'My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again' by Elvis Presley
19. 'Delta Dawn' by Tanya Tucker
20. 'Someday' by Alan Jackson
Country Morning and Dawn Songs #21 to 30
21. 'Here Comes the Sun' by Johnny Cash
22. 'Wake Up Little Susie' by The Everly Brothers
23. 'Standing In The Sun' by Dierks Bentley
24. 'Sunrise' by James Arthur
25. 'Wakin' Up' by Billy Currington
26. 'Here Comes the Rain Again' by Eurythmics
27. 'Come Wake Me Up' by Rascal Flatts
28. 'The Sun Don't Lie' by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
29. 'I'll Wake You Up When the Sun's Coming Up' by James McMurtry
30. 'New Day Dawning' by The Byrds
Top Country Songs for New Beginnings #31 to 40
31. 'Morning Comes Early' by Don Gibson
32. 'Sunrise on the Coast' by George Strait
33. 'Sunrise and Sunset' by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
34. 'The Rising Sun' by Chris Stapleton
35. 'The Longest Day' by Kenny Chesney
36. 'All My Rowdy Friends Have Settled Down' by Hank Williams Jr.
37. 'New Day' by Scotty McCreery
38. 'The Sun' by Chris Knight
39. 'Morning' by Sarah Evans
40. 'Walking On Sunshine' by Katrina & The Waves
Country Morning and Sun Songs #41 to 50
41. 'Shine' by The Band Perry
42. 'Brand New Day' by Don Williams
43. 'Daybreak' by The Shins
44. 'Good Morning Country Rain' by Bobby Bare
45. 'The Sun's Coming Up' by Miranda Lambert
46. 'Blue Morning' by Emmylou Harris
47. 'Rise and Shine' by Willie Nelson
48. 'Just a Little Sunshine' by The Osborne Brothers
49. 'Walkin' After Midnight' by Patsy Cline
50. 'Sunrise' by Darren Kiely
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