Country Songs With Unapologetically Southern Lyrics

Country music isn’t resigned to the south. Country artists come from all corners of the U.S.–even overseas too. However, the genre will always have an affinity for the southern way of living. Check out four of the most unapologetically southern lyrics in modern country songs, below.

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Once you get a taste, you’ll lick the spoon / Learn every word to The Dance and Neon Moon (“Country’s Cool Again” – Lainey Wilson)

Lainey Wilson called out all the city dwellers that are dabbling in the country way of life with “Country’s Cool Again”. There is no denying that country has experienced a resurgence over the last couple of years. Indeed, everybody does wanna be a cowboy, as Wilson says in this runaway hit.

Wilson knows a thing or two about the kind of living that this song promotes. A southern girl herself, she knows all about driving a jon boat or whipping a John Deere. Though there might be many trying to wiggle their way into the country scene, Wilson is the genuine article.

I feel no shame, I’m proud of where I came from / I was born and raised in the boondocks (“Boondocks – Little Big Town”)

Little Big Town’s “Boondocks” is one of the most famous songs about living out in the country. They make their corner of the world seem like the only place to be with this 2005 hit.

You get a line, I get a pole / We’ll go fishing in the crawfish hole / Five card poker on Saturday night / Church on Sunday morning, the bridge to this song reads. There are many country listeners that would see that as the lineup to the perfect weekend.

Buck knife on my belt, ain’t no land for sale, around here / Red clay country mud, sippin’ on a cold Bud (“Backwoods” – Justin Moore)

Justin Moore‘s “Backwoods” covers the entire scope of southern conventions. Though they might be a little cliche, there are many in the south that likely relate to Moore’s lyrics. In the lines above, he sings about an ideal day in a southern man’s life: working on your red clay land while sipping on beer. We can’t deny that it sounds pretty idyllic.

Elsewhere in this country song, Moore sings about finding someone to settle down with, working hard, and playing hard. It’s the kind of small-town living that makes the hustle and bustle of big city life seem far too complicated.

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I’m sweet tea sippin’ on a front porch, sittin’ / While my hubby fries chicken and I’m picking these strings (“Locomotive”)

Miranda Lambert declares that she’s a bit more Tennessee than anything else in “Locomotive”. While New York seems okay, there is only one way of life for her: the southern way.

She sings about sitting on the front porch, frying chicken with her husband and picking on guitar strings. It’s certainly a southerly vignette. Lambert’s signature twang helps to drive home the scene laid out in the lyrics to this country song.

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