Bless Your Cheating Heart: 4 of the Best Country Songs About Infidelity

Country artists are great at commiserating with their listeners. Some of the best songs in the genre deal with broken hearts. Though there are many ways to get a broken heart, one of the most painful is a cheating partner. Plenty of country artists have written songs about that exact scenario. Find four of the best, below.

Bless Your Cheating Heart: 4 of the Best Country Songs About Infidelity

1. “Should’ve Said No” (Taylor Swift)

We’re starting our list of the best country songs about cheating with an early Taylor Swift cut, “Should’ve Said No.” Swift confronts her cheating boyfriend, presenting him with a very simple answer to the situation their in: You should’ve said, “No.” All it would’ve taken is that simple phrase and their relationship would still be intact.

You should’ve said, “No”
You should’ve gone home
You should’ve thought twice ‘fore you let it all go
You should’ve known that word ’bout what you did with her
Get back to me

[RELATED: Remember When: Taylor Swift Changed What Some Considered a Homophobic Lyric in Her 2006 Single “Picture to Burn”]

2. “Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under” (Shania Twain)

Though Shania Twain asks the titular question “Whose bed have your boots been under” in the song of the same name, she already knows the answer–well many possibilities anyway. She bluntly lists off the many women her partner has been seen with.

Whose bed have your boots been under?
And whose heart did you steal I wonder?
This time did it feel like thunder, baby?
And who did you run to?

3. “Your Cheatin’ Heart” (Hank Williams)

Next up on our list of heartbroken country songs is this Hank Williams track. In Williams’ “Your Cheatin’ Heart,” he tells the guilty party that they will one day feel the sting of their infidelity. When you can’t sleep and can’t keep from crying, just know your cheating heart is to blame.

When tears come down like fallin’ rain
You’ll toss around and call my name
You’ll walk the floor the way I do
Your cheatin’ heart will tell on you

4. “Wish I Didn’t Know Now” (Toby Keith)

Even though many of us don’t want anything to do with a cheater, it can be hard to let them go. Specifically, it’s hard to let go of the good times. It’ll leave you pining for a time when you didn’t know the pain you know now. Toby Keith’s “Wish I Didn’t Know Now” sums up that sentiment.

I wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then
I wish I could start this whole thing over again
I’m not sayin’ that you could never be true
I just don’t wanna know how it ends

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