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Here are 30 great horse songs.
Appaloosa By Gino Vanelli ’70s Canadian crooner sings: “Appaloosa, runnin’ wild in the dead of the night Appaloosa, you’re the message of love and light.” |
| Crazy Horses By Osmonds Bros. Rock out in early ’70s with wild equines. |
| One Trick Pony By Paul Simon “He’s got one trick to last a lifetime, but that’s all a pony needs.” |
| Pony By Kasey Chambers “When I grow up I want a pony I’m gonna ride her from dusk til dawn.” |
| Mr. Ed theme song “A horse is a horse |
Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses By U2 Not really about horses, but cool nonetheless. |
| Live Like Horses By Elton John “Someday we’ll live like horses Free reign from your old iron fences.” |
| Pullin’ Back the Reins Like closing the barn door after the horse is already out, pulling back on the reins does no good when what you’re looking for—in this case lost love—is already gone. |
| A Horse in the Country By The Cowboy Junkies Equestrian escapism at its finest, longing for the freedom to ride off into the sunset. “Someday we’ll saddle up, and the two of us will ride away.” |
| Let That Pony Run By Pam Tillis “She got a divorce and a chestnut horse.” It goes to show you can ride out heartbreak. |
| Back in the Saddle Again By Gene Autry Anyone who’s ever taken a fall knows this one all too well. |
| Pony Boy By Bruce Springsteen Who wouldn’t want to be the Boss’ hoss? “O’er the hills and through the trees/We’ll go ridin’ you and me.” |
| Strawberry Roan By Marty Robbins Country great sings: “I know there are ponies that I cannot ride/There’s some of them left, they haven’t all died.” |
| Wild Horses By The Rolling Stones While horses drag Garth, the Stones can’t be budged. |
| Wildfire By Michael Martin Murphey “She ran calling Wiiiiiiiiild -fire …” Dare you not to get this one stuck in your head. |
Bring on the Dancing Horses By Echo & the Bunnymen Liverpool pop group tells us: “Bring on the dancing horses/Wherever they may roam.” |
| Beer for my Horses By Toby Keith and Willie Nelson Not what we’d recommend personally, but the guys say: “whiskey for my men, beer for my horses.” |
| Black Horse and the Cherry Tree By KT Tunstall The new theme song for frustrated horse shoppers? “I said no, no, you’re not the one for me.” |
| Run for the Roses By Dan Fogelberg As much a Derby Day classic as My Old Kentucky Home |
| Chestnut Mare By The Byrds Hard to catch? An elusive red-headed mare is “always alone, never with the herd”—one man’s yearning for a beautiful wild mare. |
| Heavy Horses By Jethro Tull Heavy Horses by Jethro Tull. A tribute to working draft horses, their “iron-clad feather-feet pounding the dust.” |
| Tennessee Stud By Johnny Cash “The Tennessee Stud was long and lean The color of the sun and his eyes were green.” |
| Rider in the Rain By Randy Newman |
| Wild Horses By Prefab Sprout Northern England pop group uses metaphors, “through the rails, I spied your pony tail …” |
| Three Horses |
| The Old Gray Mare Traditional |
| I Ride an Old Paint By Arlo Guthrie A cowboy classic: “Tie my bones to the saddle and turn our faces to the west And we’ll ride the prairie we love best.” |
| Wild Horses By Garth Brooks “Wild horses just stay wild, and her heart is all I break Wild horses keep dragging me away.” |
| Commanche The Brave Horse By Johnny Horton Ode to the only survivor of the Battle of Little Big Horn. |
| Horse With No Name |
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i think the best horse song is wild horses by Natasha Beddingfield its so pretty.
Beer for my horses kicks but(ha ha), in my opion. I think that it should have had a better place, plus I have never heard of some of the songs.
thnaks for making a list of GREAT horse songs now i can listen to them i was always looking for good horse songs and could never find them! well thanks agian!
cool i never heard of soem of these songs ...and now i almost own all of them! thanks!
One great horse song is a song I believe is entitled "Cheyenee" - Roy Rogers did a rendition of it where the chorus is : "Cheyenne, Cheyenne, I'm a leaving Cheyenne" and then the first verse begins: "My foot in the stirrup, my rein in my hand, goodbye old Paint, I'm a leaving Cheyenne". While the song talks about leaving Cheyenne so much - the words also convey that the reason he will be missing Cheyenne is because of the horse he is leaving behind. I enjoy it because it provides an inspiring glimpse into the close relationship a man can have with his trusted friend, and co-worker.
To Tim from Cleveland OH. That song is titled "Goodbye old Paint." Just a different version/words by Roy Rogers. To the Editors: I guess I'll have to buy all 30 songs now.
those are good but I like wild horses by Natasha Benningfield (sp)
I think the songs Wild horses by Natasha Bedingfield and Here I am from the movie Spirit should be on that list!!!!
Very interesting list, although I have not heard of all of these songs it makes me want to find them all just to give them a listen. Thanks for the list, add more things like this in the future.
I only know 3 songs on the list. I wish I knew more of them because some of them sound like they would be good songs. I know a bunch of other horse songs that are not on here too.