The Best Country Songs About Ghosts

“I do like a good ghost story in a country song,” Rosanne Cash once remarked onstage in Gateshead.

The particular one she was referring to was ‘Long Black Veil’ - a hit for Lefty Frizzell in 1959 and famously recast by The Band on Music From Big Pink ten years later - but she’s got plenty to choose from!

And here are the spookiest of them all, apparitions from all over the spectrum - ghost horses, ghost dogs, ghost trains and ghost trucks. And a ghost boat.

The ghost of Elvis and the ghost of Hank Williams alongside the ghost of Porter Wagoner. Friendly phantoms and less friendly wraiths. Haunted houses and the thoughts of old lovers haunting your mind to insanity or something very like it.

Cartoon ghosts, literary ghosts, spoken word ghosts. Country ghosts, bluegrass ghosts, Americana ghosts and more. They’re all here in our Holler playlist of The Best Country Songs About Ghosts.

See the full tracklist for the Playlist below:

1. 1.

   (Ghost) Riders In The Sky

   Johnny Cash

2. 2.

   The Ride

   David Allan Coe

3. 3.

   Haunted (Taylor's Version)

   Taylor Swift

4. 4.

   Haunted Mountain

   Buck Meek

5. 5.

   Haunted House

   Matt Schuster

6. 6.

   Midnight In Montgomery

   Alan Jackson

7. 7.

   Ghost Town

   Sam Barber

8. 8.

   ghost in my guitar (feat. Chris Stapleton)

   Alana Springsteen

9. 9.

   Mountain Angel

   Dolly Parton

10. 10.

    Long Black Veil

    Lefty Frizzell

11. 11.

    Ghost Story

    Carrie Underwood

12. 12.

    Riding With Private Malone

    David Ball

13. 13.

    Ghosts Of Mississippi

    The Steeldrivers

14. 14.

    The Little Girl

    John Michael Montgomery and Alison Krauss

15. 15.

    Ghost Town

    Sam Outlaw

16. 16.

    Ghost In This House

    Alison Krauss

17. 17.

    The Legend Of Wooley Swamp

    The Charlie Daniels Band

18. 18.

    Ghost Trains

    Hank Snow

19. 19.

    The Silvet Ghost

    Merle Haggard

20. 20.

    The Haunted House

    Barbara Fairchild

21. 21.

    Virginia Town

    Lorne Greene

22. 22.

    Phantom 309

    Red Sovine

23. 23.

    The Ghostman Trucker

    Sonny Boy George

24. 24.

    Bones

    Little Big Town

25. 25.

    Riders In The Sky

    Frankie Laine

26. 26.

    This Haunted House

    Loretta Lynn

27. 27.

    Haunted House

    John Forgerty

28. 28.

    (It's A) Monster's Holiday

    Buck Owens

29. 29.

    Ghost in the Graveyard

    Prairie Ramblers

30. 30.

    Porter Wagoner's Grave

    Marty Stuart

31. 31.

    The Ghost of Hank Williams

    The Kentucky Headhunters

32. 32.

    Old Tige

    Jim Reeves

33. 33.

    Ghost

    Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert and Jon Randall

34. 34.

    The Beaches of Cheyenne

    Garth Brooks

35. 35.

    The Ghost of Tom Joad

    Bruce Springsteen

36. 36.

    Ghosts of Highway 20

    Lucinda Williams

37. 37.

    Walking In Memphis

    Lonestar

38. 38.

    The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

    Laura Cantrell

39. 39.

    Long Black Veil

    The Band

40. 40.

    Ghosts on the Stereo

    Carrie Underwood

41. 41.

    Ghost on the Canvas

    Glen Campbell

42. 42.

    Haunted House

    Treetop Flyers

43. 43.

    The Ghost Who Walks

    Karen Elson

44. 44.

    Haunted House

    Ryan Adams

45. 45.

    Ghost Train Four-Oh-Ten

    Marty Stuart

46. 46.

    Ghost In This House

    Shenandoah

47. 47.

    Ghost Riders In The Sky

    The Ramrods

48. 48.

    Ghost Town

    Tyler Booth

49. 49.

    Haunted Heart

    Sammy Kershaw

50. 50.

    I Believe In Ghosts

    Jason Aldean

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