50 Best Country Songs About Tools
Best Country Tracks Featuring Tools
There’s a strange kind of poetry in songs that name-drop hammers, wrenches, and chains. Tools carry weight beyond their purpose, and country music knows how to twist that imagery until it cuts. A hammer might sound like work, but in the right hands it’s about holding things together when everything feels like it’s falling apart. A saw can mean carving space out of your own life, or maybe splitting from someone you can’t hold onto anymore. Not every lyric has to be literal for it to fit. Plenty of pop, rock, country, and R&B songs use the language of work and repair to hint at something deeper.
There’s grit in these songs that feels earned. You hear steel in the guitar strings and the thump of rhythm like a hammer landing on a nail. Some tracks lean into the sweat and noise of real labor, while others take the same imagery and aim it at heartbreak or survival. Even when the chorus never mentions a toolbox, the spirit of building, breaking, and patching things together still hums underneath. It’s not always polished, but that’s the point.
This set of songs catches that energy. The messy side of fixing, the stubbornness of starting over, and the hard truth tucked inside the clang of metal. Some of them use tools directly, others circle around the idea, but they all hit with the same kind of force. Here are the best country songs that bring tools into the spotlight.
Top 10 Tool-Inspired Country Songs
1. 'Hard Hat and a Hammer' by Alan Jackson
2. 'Working Man Blues' by Merle Haggard
3. 'Hard Workin' Man' by Brooks & Dunn
4. 'Working Man's Ph.D.' by Aaron Tippin
5. 'Take This Job and Shove It' by Johnny Paycheck
6. 'Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)' by Alan Jackson
7. 'If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)' by Pete Seeger
8. '40 Hour Week (For a Livin')' by Alabama
9. 'Working Man's Hands' by Patty Loveless
10. 'Working Man' by John Conlee
Songs About Blue Collar Jobs #11 to 20
11. 'Country Girl (Shake It For Me)' by Luke Bryan
12. 'Nine Pound Hammer' by Merle Travis
13. 'A Power Tool Is Not a Toy' by Western Caravan
14. 'He Walked on Water' by Randy Travis
15. 'One Piece at a Time' by Johnny Cash
16. 'Handyman Needed' by Shae Nycole
17. 'Coal Miner's Daughter' by Loretta Lynn
18. 'Lord Have Mercy on the Working Man' by Travis Tritt
19. 'Wichita Lineman' by Glen Campbell
20. 'Workin' on the Highway' by Bruce Springsteen
Country Songs About Labor and Work Ethic #21 to 30
21. 'Workin' for a Livin'' by Huey Lewis and The News
22. 'Daddy's Hands' by Holly Dunn
23. 'The Farmer's Daughter' by Merle Haggard
24. 'Working My Way To LA' by Jim Ford
25. 'All the Tools, No Time' by The Music Men
26. 'I'm Workin' by Charley Crockett
27. 'Man of Constant Sorrow' by The Stanley Brothers
28. 'Working Man (Nowhere to Go)' by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
29. 'I've Been Working on the Railroad' by John Denver
30. 'Proud of the House We Built' by Brooks & Dunn
The Best Country Work Songs #31 to 40
31. 'The Working Man' by Creedence Clearwater Revival
32. 'This Fucking Job' by Drive-By Truckers
33. 'Paycheck to Paycheck' by Midland
34. 'Working at the Car Wash Blues' by Jim Croce
35. 'Sixteen Tons' by Tennessee Ernie Ford
36. 'Get a Job' by The Tractors
37. 'Work All Day' by Matt Koziol
38. 'Hard on Equipment (Tool for the Job)' by Corb Lund
39. 'Manual Labor' by Billy Joe Shaver
40. 'Workin' Overtime' by Lainey Wilson
Top Country Hits About Handiwork #41 to 50
41. 'Shiftwork' by Kenny Chesney and George Strait
42. 'The Dollar' by Jamey Johnson
43. 'Working Girl' by Dolly Parton
44. 'Work Hard, Play Harder' by Gretchen Wilson
45. 'Oney' by Johnny Cash
46. 'I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday' by Fats Domino
47. 'Goin' to Work' by Martina McBride
48. 'Busy Man' by Billy Ray Cyrus
49. 'My Life's a Tool Box' by George Strait
50. 'Housewife's Prayer' by Pistol Annies
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