50 Best Country Songs About the Moon
Top Country Songs Featuring the Moon
There’s a certain pull the moon has when it shows up in country music. It’s not really romance, not exactly mystery, but something tangled between the two. You can be leaning against a truck bed, the night air sticky, and a slow fiddle line cuts through while the moon hangs too bright for the hour. Sometimes it’s the soundtrack to somebody waiting, sometimes it’s there when a goodbye settles in. The lyrics don’t try to explain it. They just let that quiet glow seep in until it feels like another character in the story.
These songs don’t go for big, glossy moments. They feel like field edges and porch steps, headlights disappearing down a dirt road, the kind of scenes that make you notice how loud crickets really are. It’s the moon hanging over a lonely chorus, or tucked into a verse that’s half regret, half hope. You’ll find it in the background of a dance, or hanging heavy over a voice cracked from too many miles. It’s that same kind of presence you get in pop, rock, country, and R&B songs, but here it feels rougher, dustier, closer to the ground.
Not every moonlit track is soft and slow. Some hit with a pulse, a bit of swagger, the kind of beat that could carry across a fairground. Others drift easy, letting the night stretch long. Together they build a picture that’s neither perfect nor neat, but it rings true when you hear it. Here are the best country songs featuring the moon.
Top 10 Country Moon Songs
1. 'Neon Moon'—Brooks & Dunn
2. 'I'll Be the Moon'—Dierks Bentley featuring Maren Morris
3. 'Running Outta Moonlight'—Randy Houser
4. 'Does That Blue Moon Ever Shine on You'—Toby Keith
5. 'Lying to the Moon'—Trisha Yearwood
6. 'Footprints on the Moon'—Gabby Barrett
7. 'Honky Tonk Moon'—Randy Travis
8. 'Rope the Moon'—John Michael Montgomery
9. 'Hypnotize the Moon'—Clay Walker
10. 'Harvest Moon'—Neil Young
More Country Songs with Moon Mentions #11—20
11. 'Blue Moon of Kentucky'—Patsy Cline
12. 'There's a Moon Over Kentucky'—The Osborne Brothers
13. 'That's the Moon'—Tate McRae
14. 'Drunk on the Moon'—Tom Waits
15. 'Blue Moon'—Elvis Presley
16. 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress'—Glen Campbell
17. 'Full Moon Full Life'—Azumi Takahashi
18. 'Moon Over Georgia'—Shenandoah
19. 'Moon Over Mexico'—Luke Combs
20. 'Moon Over My Shoulder'—Lyle Lovett
Further Country Moon Song Options #21—30
21. 'She Never Lets Go of My Hand'—Dillon Carmichael
22. 'Man on the Moon'—R.E.M.
23. 'Shadow of the Moon'—Blackberry Smoke
24. 'Moonlight'—Grace Potter & The Nocturnals
25. 'Moonlight Ride'—Chris Janson
26. 'Silver Moon'—The SteelDrivers
27. 'Moonshine'—Hunter Hayes
28. 'Moonshine in the Trunk'—Brad Paisley
29. 'Carolina Moon'—Connie Francis
30. 'Moonlight Serenade'—Glenn Miller
Additional Moon Themed Country Songs #31—40
31. 'The Light of a Full Moon'—Alan Jackson
32. 'Moon River'—Andy Williams
33. 'Talking to the Moon'—Don Williams
34. 'New Moon Over Jamaica'—The Kentucky Headhunters featuring Johnnie Johnson
35. 'Howlin' at the Moon'—Hank Williams
36. 'To the Moon and Back'—Luke Bryan
37. 'American Flag on the Moon'—Brad Paisley
38. 'Calling the Moon'—Dar Williams
39. 'Once in a Very Blue Moon'—Nanci Griffith
40. 'To the Moon'—George Strait
Country Song Selection With a Moon Connection #41—50
41. 'That Old Moon'—Dierks Bentley
42. 'Moonshine and a Backroad'—Bucky Covington
43. 'Full Moon Full of Empty'—Shy Carter
44. 'Watermelon Moonshine'—Lainey Wilson
45. 'Two Steppin' On the Moon'—Josh Turner
46. 'Blue Moon'—The Marcels
47. 'Whiskey and You'—Chris Stapleton
48. 'Moon'—Kid Cudi
49. 'Goodbye Moon'—Emmylou Harris
50. 'Moon Song'—Patty Griffin
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