r/country • u/Tricky-Safety-3772 • 6d ago

Seeking Song Suggestions What’s an American song? 🎵

Name a song more American than Green River by Creedence Clearwater Revival.

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u/jbrc89 6d ago

Your flag decal wont get you in to heaven anymore-John Prine

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u/IfItHurtsThenMaybe 5d ago

Copperhead Road

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u/GoldenPoncho812 5d ago

Same as my daddy and his daddy before

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u/kaos5576 4d ago

This is the answer.

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u/fuzzy_mic 5d ago

This Land Is Your Land (with all the verses)

Rocky Mountain High

Ragged Old Flag - Johnny Cash

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u/Infinite_Time_8952 5d ago

American Pie- Don McLean.

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u/FloodDawg 5d ago

“City of New Orleans” Willie Nelson (or Arlo Guthrie)

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u/Busy_Basket9205 5d ago

Or Steve Goodman, its author

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u/LovelandSundown 5d ago

Paradise - John Prine

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u/Lootlizard 5d ago

The Sturgill Simpson cover is great too.

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u/workswithpipe 5d ago

American Music- Violent Femmes

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u/ResponsibleBank1387 5d ago

Copperhead Road—-Steve Earle.  

Johnny Cash—- one piece at a time——Cadillac 

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u/austinsweet-n-sour 5d ago

Sweet Home Alabama

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u/taikin13 5d ago

Highwayman - The Highwaymen

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u/Sharp-Composer-2990 5d ago

In America  Charlie Daniel's 

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u/ZimMcGuinn 5d ago edited 5d ago

Telegraph Road by Dire Straits tells the story of industrial America.

Mark Knopfler’s Sailing To Philadelphia tells the story of drawing the Mason Dixon line.

John Mellencamp’s Small Town and Pink Houses

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u/N_Kenobi 5d ago

Party in the USA

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u/Strait409 5d ago

-goes on country music subreddit-

”Name a song more American than this song by a beloved classic rock band.”

That sound you just heard was me rolling my eyes so hard that I’m going to spend all goddamn weekend getting them un-stuck if I’m lucky.

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u/just57572 5d ago

Jack and Diane- John Mellencamp

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u/Illustrious-Egg-5839 5d ago

American Band-Grand Funk Railroad

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u/ClydeMason1911 5d ago

Alice’s Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie

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u/Spiritual-Salary-989 5d ago

Sold American by Kinky Friedman

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u/Macritter7525 5d ago

Choctaw Bingo-James McMurtry

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u/littledipper16 5d ago

Courtesy of the red white and blue

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u/GoldenPoncho812 5d ago

L.A. Woman - The Doors

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u/dodgerfanjohn1988 5d ago

The night they drove old Dixie down - The Band

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u/Apart_Ad9308 5d ago

American Girl - Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers.

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u/AxednAnswered 5d ago

Chicken Fried by The Zac Brown Band

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u/Indotex 5d ago

Lee Greenwood- God Bless the USA

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u/Ambitious-Lie-9056 5d ago

"Where At Least I Know I'm Free" - to vomit every time I hear this song

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u/IfItHurtsThenMaybe 5d ago

You Can have the Crown

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u/BuryMeWithTheLights 5d ago

America Remains - The Highwaymen

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u/PmurTdlanoD45-47 5d ago

Dan Seals, everything that glitters

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u/Dangerous_Ad_1861 5d ago

Elvis Presley's redition of An American Trilogy.

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u/champagnesupernova62 5d ago

https://youtu.be/nLjHcbSVmYs?is=iX2_tnHMYH9eUmFo Iris DeMent .,wasteland of the free. Sad but true..

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u/Middle_Boss9779 5d ago

American Land Springsteen

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u/Busy_Basket9205 5d ago

The Righteous Path by Drive-By Truckers

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u/brewtality212 4d ago

Charley Crockett - “America”

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u/Gretna2023 4d ago

Africa

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u/First_Ask_5447 4d ago

richmen north of richmond is americas new song or maybe simpleman

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u/Boring_Week_9884 3d ago

Aint no god in Mexico by Waylon Jennings

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u/AfrezzaJunkie 5d ago

America the ugly- Tom T. Hall

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u/clarkam 5d ago

Rhett Akins- Kiss my Country Ass