The Best Country Songs About Horses

“Dancing and riding; it’s the same damn thing,” Nicholas Evans wrote in his best-selling novel The Horse Whisperer. Which probably explains why there are so many bloody country songs about horses!

If I'm being honest, I loved horses before I loved country music. I grew up watching Champion the Wonderhorse and National Velvet and I loved watching westerns; mainly for the horses.

When I was five years old, I was so into horses and cowgirls and cowboys that I started listening to songs about them too.

I remember Marty Robbins seemed to have the best ones, but Eddy Arnold had one called ‘The Tennessee Stud’ that the five-year-old me absolutely loved.

Ever since then my ears have always pricked up whenever a horse song comes on. From songs about old faithful companions to ones about wild untameable beasts, there’s something in this playlist for every horse loving country music lover.

After all, there’s no better place to see the world than from the back of a horse.

So, saddle up and ride off into the sunset with Holler’s playlist of the Best Country Songs About Horses.

See the full tracklist for Holler's Best Country Music Songs About Horses Playlist below:

1. 1.

   High Horse

   Kacey Musgraves

2. 2.

   Giddy Up

   Shania Twain

3. 3.

   Old Town Road - Remix

   Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus

4. 4.

   Wildflowers and Wild Horses

   Lainey Wilson

5. 5.

   A Horse With No Name

   America

6. 6.

   White Horse (Taylor's Version)

   Taylor Swift

7. 7.

   Faster Horses (The Cowboy and the Poet)

   Tom T. Hall

8. 8.

   Since She Started To Ride

   Jonathan Richman

9. 9.

   If Heartaches Were Horses

   George Strait

10. 10.

    Hold My Horses

    Madeline Edwards

11. 11.

    One in the Saddle, One on the Ground

    Sturgill Simpson

12. 12.

    Back in the Saddle Again

    Gene Autry

13. 13.

    Beer For My Horses

    Toby Keith and Willie Nelson

14. 14.

    Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy)

    Big & Rich

15. 15.

    Wild Horses

    The Flying Burrito Brothers

16. 16.

    Six White Horses

    Karl Blau

17. 17.

    Ballad of a Runaway Horse

    Emmylou Harris

18. 18.

    Just Like Them Horses

    Reba McEntire

19. 19.

    Old Paint

    Linda Ronstadt

20. 20.

    Tennessee Stud

    Johnny Cash

21. 21.

    No Horse To Ride

    Luke Grimes

22. 22.

    Horses are Faster

    Ian Munswick

23. 23.

    Wild Palomino

    Zac Brown Band

24. 24.

    High Horse

    Nelly, Breland and Blanco Brown

25. 25.

    She Won't Come To Me

    Corb Lund

26. 26.

    That Buckin' Song

    Robert Earl Keen

27. 27.

    One Hand In The Riggin'

    Chancey Williams

28. 28.

    She Loves To Ride Horses

    Guy Clark

29. 29.

    The Cowboy In The Continental

    Marty Robbins

30. 30.

    Ride Me Back Home

    Willie Nelson

31. 31.

    back in the saddle

    Ashley Cooke

32. 32.

    A Cowboy's Toughest Ride

    Clay Walker

33. 33.

    Pretty Horses

    Dwight Yoakam

34. 34.

    He Rides The Wild Horses

    Chris LeDoux

35. 35.

    Cowgirl Blues

    Midland

36. 36.

    Open The Gate

    Zach Bryan

37. 37.

    Saddle

    Paul Cauthen

38. 38.

    Plastic Saddle

    Jerry Reed

39. 39.

    Happy Reunion

    Colter Wall

40. 40.

    The Strawberry Roan

    Marty Robbins

41. 41.

    Ponies

    John Denver

42. 42.

    Palomino Princess

    Tyler Booth

43. 43.

    No Reins

    Rascal Flatts

44. 44.

    Good Saddles Ain't Cheap

    Justin McBride

45. 45.

    Horses In Heaven

    Kylie Frey and Randy Houser

46. 46.

    Wildfire

    Michael Martin Murphey

47. 47.

    She Rides Wild Horses

    Kenny Rogers

48. 48.

    Wildhorse

    RaeLynn

49. 49.

    Saddle Up

    Colt Ford

50. 50.

    Horses

    Keith Urban and Lindsay Ell

51. 51.

    Broken Horses

    Brandi Carlile

52. 52.

    Waiting For Wild Horses

    Arlo McKinley

53. 53.

    Hooked On An 8 Second Ride

    Chris LeDoux

54. 54.

    Which Way Does That Old Pony Run

    Lyle Lovett

55. 55.

    Buckskin Stallion Blues

    Townes Van Zandt

56. 56.

    Chestnut Mare

    The Byrds

57. 57.

    A Horse In The Country

    Cowboy Junkies

58. 58.

    What A High Horse

    Waylon Payne

59. 59.

    Pony

    Kasey Chambers

60. 60.

    Back In The Saddle

    Matraca Berg

61. 61.

    Tonight We Ride

    Tom Russell

62. 62.

    My Rifle, My Pony and Me

    Don Williams

63. 63.

    Commanche (The Brave Horse)

    Johnny Horton

64. 64.

    Silver Stallion

    The Highwaymen

65. 65.

    Mustang

    Cameron Hawthorn

66. 66.

    Palomino Gold

    The Wilder Blue

67. 67.

    The Ballad of the Mustang

    Spencer Crandall

68. 68.

    Another Horse To Ride

    Ned LeDoux

69. 69.

    Horses

    Daryl Braithwaite

70. 70.

    The Horse That Nobody Could Ride

    Joey + Rory

71. 71.

    A Cowboy Knows How

    Flatland Cavalry

72. 72.

    Ballad Of The Appaloosa

    Bobby Wayne

73. 73.

    Red Headed Stranger

    Willie Nelson

74. 74.

    Old Paint

    Chris LeDoux

75. 75.

    Old Red

    Marty Robbins

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