Songs That Mention Animals

[sabre14]

:)

Rebecca Lynn Howard - "I Need A Vacation" (Trixi -- dog)
Blake Shelton - "Ol' Red" (dog)
Kenny Chesney - "Keg In The Closet" (dog named Bocephus)
Pirates of the Mississippi - "Feed Jake" (dog)
Toby Keith - "Every Dog Has Its Day" (dog, ducks)
George Strait - "You Know Me Better Than That" (cat)
Lonestar - "No News" (cat)
LeAnn Rimes - "Something's Gotta Give" (cat named Jake)
Tim McGraw - "Do You Want You Fries With That" (dog, cat)
Craig Campbell - "Fish" (fish)
Brad Paisley - "I'm Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin' Song)" (fish)
Brad Paisley f/Dolly Parton - "When I Get Where I'm Going" (lion)
Carolina Rain - "Get Outta My Way" (filly)
Jerrod Niemann - "Donkey" (donkey)
Hot Apple Pie - "Hillbillies" (rooster, mule, hound dog)
Josh Thompson - "Beer On The Table" (rooster)

[carriekins]

Dierks:

Feel That Fire (she wants to make every stray a pet)

Up on the Ridge (hear ol' Jake [his dog] start to howl when he hears that ol' hoot owl)

Down in the Mine (on the wings of canaries their souls surely fly)

[trebor]

Gord Bamford: "Unreal" [like a palomino flying through the clouds] so it's a dove and not the horses!

Brandon Rhyder: "Haggard" - dogs, cats, hen, fish
[We feed our dogs and cats our table scraps][We get our eggs straight from the hen house]

Dean Brody: "Mountain Man" - coyote, grizzly bear, beaver, fish, squirrel, elk, deer
[That coyote howls, And the grizzly bear he growls][Pull a fish from a brook][But if you had to you could eat a squirrel]

Luke Bryan: "That's My Kind Of Night" - [catch us up a little catfish dinner] catfish

Corb Lund: "Cows Around" - [Everything is better with some cows around] well,... cows and loads of them: bovine, cattle, game, Hereford, Highland, Simmental, Welsh Black, Maine-Anjou, Chianina, Limousine, Shorthorn, Charolais, Watusi, Texas Long Horn, Kuri, Roan, Ankole, Galloway, Red Angus, Brahma, Brangus, Jersey, Guernsey, Holstein)

George Canyon: "Ironwolf" - [Tell me Ironwolf are you really to blame] - wolf [Not sure whether wolf is used as some metaphor]

Josh Ritter: "Birds Of the Meadow" - birds

Not actual animals: 
Brantley Gilbert. "Just As I Am" - [Gonna drive my steel horse down to the altar] - horse
Luke O'Shea: "Catch You" -  [There's a black dog at the door] - dog
Michael wilks: "No More" -  [Walk away that black dog won't get me] - dog

[Andy]

Buck Owens - I've Got a Tiger by the Tail
David Allan Coe - The Old Grey Goose is Dead
Doc Watson - Intoxicated Rat
Dolly Parton - Love is Like a Butterfly (do insects count as animals?)
Ferlin Husky - Wings of a Dove
Gretchen Peters - Blackbirds
Joey + Rory - Freebird
Johnny Bush - Green Snakes
Johnny Cash - Mean Eyed Cat
Ray Wylie Hubbard - Snake Farm
Robert Earl Keen - The Raven and the Coyote
Tom T. Hall - Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine

[sabre14]

Andy

I'll say insects count. Just so I can say "Ticks" and "You Need A Man Around Here" (spiders) by Brad Paisley.

[someguy]

Reba McEntire - "Just Like Them Horses" (self explainitary, lol)
Reba McEntire - "For Herself" (horse)
Reba McEntire - "Love Needs A Holiday" (dog)
Reba McEntire - "Fancy" (roach)

Toby Keith - "Who's That Man" (dog)

[zjames]

Turnpike Troubadours - "The Bird Hunters" (covey, pointing dog, old English pointer)
Phil Vassar - "Just Another Day In Paradise" (dog barking at the mailman)
Billy Currington - "Like My Dog"
Trace Adkins - "You're Gonna Miss This" (dog's barking)
Eric Church - "Creepin'" (Honeybee beating on my screen door)
Brad Paisley - "I'm Still A Guy" (When you see a deer you see Bambi, walk your sissy dog)
Eric Church - "Love Your Love The Most" (small-mouth bass)
Tim McGraw - "Down On The Farm" (Don't mess with the bull)
Tim McGraw - "Indian Outlaw" (We can ride my pony double)
Toby Keith - "Should've Been A Cowboy" (Riding my pony on a cattle drive)
Toby Keith/Willie Nelson - "Beer For My Horses"
Big & Rich - "Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy)"

[sabre14]

The Farm - "Home Sweet Home" (crickets)
Faith Hill - "Fireflies"
Joe Nichols - "Crickets"

Clark Family Experience - "Meanwhile Back At The Ranch" (fish)
Darius Rucker - "Southern Style" (oysters)
Cledus T. Judd - "How Do You Milk A Cow?"

[thy4568]

FEED JAKE PIRATES OF THE MISSISSIPPI

[thy4568]

"Ain't Your Dog No More" BILLY RAY CYRUS
"My Night to Howl" LORRIE MORGAN
"Doghouse" JOHN CONLEE

[sabre14]

Apr 10, 2016 21:16:28 GMT -5 thy4568 said:

FEED JAKE PIRATES OF THE MISSISSIPPI

Mentioned it in my first post. Great song. :)

[Andy]

"Feed Jake" is one of the best and most underrated '90s singles, IMO.

[thy4568]

Apr 10, 2016 21:55:37 GMT -5 sabre14 said:

Apr 10, 2016 21:16:28 GMT -5 thy4568 said:

FEED JAKE PIRATES OF THE MISSISSIPPI

Mentioned it in my first post. Great song. :)

Sorry for my blindness.  Yes, love the Pirates. What happened to them?  I think they reunited recently, did they release anything new in the passed couple of years?

[sabre14]

Apr 10, 2016 22:25:08 GMT -5 thy4568 said:

Apr 10, 2016 21:55:37 GMT -5 sabre14 said:

Mentioned it in my first post. Great song. :)

Sorry for my blindness.  Yes, love the Pirates. What happened to them?  I think they reunited recently, did they release anything new in the passed couple of years?

They came back in 2006 for their Heaven And A Dixie Night album. It produced this lead off single, "Drinkin' Money (T.G.I. Party Time)", that did not chart.

WYRK actually played it on their "New Country Battle" in 2006 and it won two straight nights.



They've been away since 2007.

[trebor]

Blake Shelton: "Honey Bee" - bee [duh!]

Tyller Gummersall: "Long Ride Home" - [Now and then an eagle comes on down, perches himself up in a old tree] eagle

Uncle Lucius: "Keep The Wolves Away" - [He fought like hell to keep the wolves away][For the next few years dad was sick as a dog] wolves, dog [metaphor/fig.]

Randy Rogers & wade Bowen: "Lady Bug" - ladybug/Ladybird

Lucero: "Can't You Hear Them Howl" - [Wolves wait outside your door] wolves [metaphor]

Doc West - "Whole Lotta Bull" - [When the gates are pulled, it's a whole lotta bull][He comes from a long line of bronco living hell] bull, bronco

Jason Pritchett: "Good Show" - [It's hold on tight and ignore the hurt, survive the buck, the twist and jerk][2,000 pounds a brood even up the score] buck, brood (animal offspring)

[Steven]

Jamey Johnson - Dog In The Yard
Hank Snow - Old Shep (dog)

[sabre14]

Apr 10, 2016 22:15:30 GMT -5 Andy said:

"Feed Jake" is one of the best and most underrated '90s singles, IMO.

It still gets requested around the Country on a regular basis. It never got to the top 10 but you'd never know it by the recognition it has received over the past 20 or so years.

I also believe the dog they used in the video (or one of them) died shortly after they filmed the music video. :(

[Ten Pound Hammer]

John Anderson's "Seminole Wind" is probably the only song in any genre that mentions otters.

[CoJoFan]

Aaron Tippin- "Where The Stars And Stripes And The Eagle Fly" (eagle)
Pam Tillis- "Let That Pony Run" (pony)
Randy Travis- "Before You Kill Us All" (goldfish), (dog), (cat)
Garth Brooks- "Wolves" (wolf)
Garth Brooks- "Wild Horses" (horse)
Luke Bryan- "Country Man" (hogs), (gators)
Lonestar- "Mr. Mom" (dog)
Diamond Rio- "How Your Love Makes Me Feel" (cow)

These are just a few that come to mind

[tim]

Apr 8, 2016 21:04:18 GMT -5 sabre14 said:

Andy

I'll say insects count. Just so I can say "Ticks" and "You Need A Man Around Here" (spiders) by Brad Paisley.

This made me think of "Ants On A Log" by Randy Travis

And in that case "The Bug" by Mary Chapin Carpenter as well.

[countrymusicjunkie]

Miranda Lambert-"Famous in a Small Town" (I just got the first buck of the season)
Tim McGraw-"Meanwhile Back At Mama's" (Where I come from only the horses run)
Tim McGraw-"Live Like Your Were Dying (2.7 seconds on a bull named Fumanchu)(I watched an eagle as it was flyin)
George Strait-"If Heartaches were Horses"
George strait-"How Bout Them Cowgirls" (She's riding colts in Steamboat Srings)
Chris LeDoux-"Old Paint" (This old horse knows his way home)
Chris LeDoux-"Call of The Wild" (The bugle of the bull elk echo's through the pines) (He Hungers for the freedom of an eagle as she glides)
Chris LeDoux-"Western Skies" (Catch a rainbow on my fishing line) (Sit around the campfire and hear the coyotes call at night) (Ride my horse and watch an eagle fly)
Chris Ledoux-"Stampede" (watched the cattle as they bedded down) (these long horn cattle are getting restless) (I spur my pony on to take the lead)
Will Nelson and Merle Haggard "Pancho and Lefty" (his horse was fast as polished steel
Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson-"Mam's Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys" (Little Warm Puppies)
Waylon Jennings-"Will the Wolf Survive"
Brooks and Dunn-"Cowgirls Don't Cry" (Her daddy gave her, her first pony)
Brooks and Dunn-"South of Santa Fe" (Somewhere north of heaven where eagles fear to fly)
Garth Brooks-"Rodeo" (Well it's bulls and blood its dust and mud)
Garth Brooks-"Much Too Young" (Tougher Broncs, you know I can't recall)
Garth Brooks-"Beaches of Cheyenne" (drew a bull no man could ride)

[sabre14]

Corb Lund - "Hair In My Eyes Like A Highland Steer" (steer, white-tailed deer, sheep-dog, bullfrog)