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:

Kacey Musgraves

High Horse

Shania Twain

Giddy Up

Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus

Old Town Road - Remix

Lainey Wilson

Wildflowers and Wild Horses

America

A Horse With No Name

Taylor Swift

White Horse (Taylor's Version)

Tom T. Hall

Faster Horses (The Cowboy and the Poet)

Jonathan Richman

Since She Started To Ride

George Strait

If Heartaches Were Horses

Madeline Edwards

Hold My Horses

Sturgill Simpson

One in the Saddle, One on the Ground

Gene Autry

Back in the Saddle Again

Toby Keith and Willie Nelson

Beer For My Horses

Big & Rich

Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy)

The Flying Burrito Brothers

Wild Horses

Karl Blau

Six White Horses

Emmylou Harris

Ballad of a Runaway Horse

Reba McEntire

Just Like Them Horses

Linda Ronstadt

Old Paint

Johnny Cash

Tennessee Stud

Luke Grimes

No Horse To Ride

Ian Munswick

Horses are Faster

Zac Brown Band

Wild Palomino

Nelly, Breland and Blanco Brown

High Horse

Corb Lund

She Won't Come To Me

Robert Earl Keen

That Buckin' Song

Chancey Williams

One Hand In The Riggin'

Guy Clark

She Loves To Ride Horses

Marty Robbins

The Cowboy In The Continental

Willie Nelson

Ride Me Back Home

Ashley Cooke

back in the saddle

Clay Walker

A Cowboy's Toughest Ride

Dwight Yoakam

Pretty Horses

Chris LeDoux

He Rides The Wild Horses

Midland

Cowgirl Blues

Zach Bryan

Open The Gate

Paul Cauthen

Saddle

Jerry Reed

Plastic Saddle

Colter Wall

Happy Reunion

Marty Robbins

The Strawberry Roan

John Denver

Ponies

Tyler Booth

Palomino Princess

Rascal Flatts

No Reins

Justin McBride

Good Saddles Ain't Cheap

Kylie Frey and Randy Houser

Horses In Heaven

Michael Martin Murphey

Wildfire

Kenny Rogers

She Rides Wild Horses

RaeLynn

Wildhorse

Colt Ford

Saddle Up

Keith Urban and Lindsay Ell

Horses

Brandi Carlile

Broken Horses

Arlo McKinley

Waiting For Wild Horses

Chris LeDoux

Hooked On An 8 Second Ride

Lyle Lovett

Which Way Does That Old Pony Run

Townes Van Zandt

Buckskin Stallion Blues

The Byrds

Chestnut Mare

Cowboy Junkies

A Horse In The Country

Waylon Payne

What A High Horse

Kasey Chambers

Pony

Matraca Berg

Back In The Saddle

Tom Russell

Tonight We Ride

Don Williams

My Rifle, My Pony and Me

Johnny Horton

Commanche (The Brave Horse)

The Highwaymen

Silver Stallion

Cameron Hawthorn

Mustang

The Wilder Blue

Palomino Gold

Spencer Crandall

The Ballad of the Mustang

Ned LeDoux

Another Horse To Ride

Daryl Braithwaite

Horses

Joey + Rory

The Horse That Nobody Could Ride

Flatland Cavalry

A Cowboy Knows How

Bobby Wayne

Ballad Of The Appaloosa

Willie Nelson

Red Headed Stranger

Chris LeDoux

Old Paint

Marty Robbins

Old Red

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