50 Best Country Songs About Yard Work
Country Songs for Working in the Yard
There’s a certain headspace that kicks in when you’re knee-deep in grass clippings, dirt under your nails, and sweat running down your back while the sun refuses to quit. It’s not pure satisfaction, not total frustration, something tangled in between. The mower’s too loud, the weeds keep coming back, and somewhere in the middle of hauling mulch or fixing the fence, a song cuts through the grind. The right track doesn’t try to make yard work sound glamorous. It sits with the ache in your shoulders and the weird sense of calm that comes when the world narrows down to one stubborn chore at a time.
Yard work has its own rhythm, and sometimes the soundtrack shows up from unexpected corners. A handful of tracks are clearly tied to rural life and small-town chores, but others drift in from places you wouldn’t expect. Pop, rock, country, and R&B songs can sneak into the mix and somehow fit the mood, even if the lyrics never mention rakes or gardens. A song might be about heartbreak or late nights, but something in the tone matches the moment when you’re dragging a hose across a patch of dying grass or chasing leaves that refuse to pile up neatly.
It’s rarely peaceful, never perfect, and occasionally even fun when the right beat kicks in. These songs aren’t there to romanticize the work or make it sound easy. They’re there to blast loud while the yard turns into a half-finished project that will always need one more pass. Here are the best country songs for yard work.
Top 10 Country Farm and Garden Songs
1. 'Where the Green Grass Grows' by Tim McGraw
2. 'Hard Workin' Man' by Brooks & Dunn
3. 'Amarillo Sky' by Jason Aldean
4. 'International Harvester' by Craig Morgan
5. 'Take This Job and Shove It' by Johnny Paycheck
6. 'The Workin' End of a Hoe' by Gene Watson
7. 'Forty Hour Week (For a Livin')' by Alabama
8. 'Workin' Man Blues' by Merle Haggard
9. 'Coal Miner's Daughter' by Loretta Lynn
10. 'She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy' by Kenny Chesney
More Country Songs About Hard Labor #11 to 20
11. 'Big Green Tractor' by Jason Aldean
12. 'Lawn Boy' by Phish
13. 'Rain Is a Good Thing' by Luke Bryan
14. 'Friends With Tractors' by Rodney Atkins
15. 'Down on the Farm' by Tim McGraw
16. 'Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass' by Buck Owens
17. 'A Man on a Tractor' by Rodney Atkins
18. 'John Deere Green' by Joe Diffie
19. 'Daddy Won't Sell the Farm' by Montgomery Gentry
20. 'Here's to the Farmer' by Luke Bryan
The Best Blue Collar Country Songs #21 to 30
21. 'Workin' For a Livin'' by Huey Lewis & The News
22. 'Sixteen Tons' by Tennessee Ernie Ford
23. '9 to 5' by Dolly Parton
24. 'Cost of Livin'' by Ronnie Dunn
25. 'Shiftwork' by Kenny Chesney featuring George Strait
26. 'I've Been Working on the Railroad' by John Denver
27. 'Work All Day' by Matt Koziol
28. 'Working Man's Ph.D.' by Aaron Tippin
29. 'Hard Hat And A Hammer' by Alan Jackson
30. 'Lord Have Mercy on the Working Man' by Travis Tritt
Other Country Songs About Working Class Life #31 to 40
31. 'Drinking Class' by Lee Brice
32. 'Blowin' Smoke' by Kacey Musgraves
33. 'Farmer's Daughter' by Rodney Atkins
34. 'The Tractor' by Granger Smith
35. 'The Harvest' by Tyler Childers
36. 'John Deere Tractor' by The Judds
37. 'Lawn Chair Lazy' by James Barker Band
38. 'Dirt On My Boots' by Jon Pardi
39. 'Heartland' by George Strait
40. 'Workin' at the Car Wash Blues' by Jim Croce
More Hard Work and Yard Work Country Songs #41 to 50
41. 'High Cotton' by Alabama
42. 'Where Corn Don't Grow' by Waylon Jennings
43. 'Song of the South' by Alabama
44. 'God's Country' by Blake Shelton
45. 'The Workin' End of a Hoe' by The Grascals
46. 'One Tractor Mind' by Ashley Ryan
47. 'Scarecrow In The Garden' by Chris Stapleton
48. 'The Boy Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn' by Alison Krauss & Union Station
49. 'John Doe On A John Deere' by Lonestar
50. 'The Legend of John Henry's Hammer' by Johnny Cash
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