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This is a list of songs written about the U.S. state of West Virginia or locations in the state:
Song | Artist/Band | Release Year | Note |
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American Terrorist | Lupe Fiasco & Matthew Santos | 2006 | |
Babydog | Eastern Regional Jam | 2024 | The song is about Babydog. [1] |
By and By | Caamp | 2019 | |
Charleston Girl | Tyler Childers | 2014 | The song is about a girl from Charleston, West Virginia. [2] |
Circus Farm | Mind Garage | 2006 | |
Don't This Look Like the Dark | Jason Molina | 2005 | |
Fate of Chris Lively and Wife | Blind Alfred Reed | 1927 | The song tells of the death of Christopher Columbus Lively and his wife Mary Elizabeth Fisher Lively, who were killed on September 2, 1927 when a train collided with their horse and wagon at a railroad crossing near Pax, West Virginia. [3] |
Feathered Indians | Tyler Childers | 2017 | |
He's in Dallas | Reba McEntire | 1991 | |
Hills of West Virginia | Phil Ochs | 1965 | |
I Wanna Go Back to West Virginia | Spike Jones and His City Slickers | 1944 | |
Jamboree Jones | Johnny Mercer & The Pied Pipers | 1937 | |
John Hardy | Multiple artists [4] | 1924 | Traditional American folk song based on the life of a railroad worker living in McDowell County, West Virginia in the Spring of 1893. |
Leaving West Virginia | Kathy Mattea | 1986 | |
Linda Lou | Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys & | 1961 | |
Monongah, WV | Weekend | 2010 | |
Muswell Hillbilly | The Kinks | 1971 | |
Nobody but You | James Taylor | 1972 | |
Railroad Man | Bill Withers | 1974 | |
Remember | Mac Miller | 2013 | |
Salt Pork, West Virginia | Louis Jordan & William J. Tennyson Jr. | 1946 | No. 8 on Billboard's list of the most played race records of 1946. [5] |
Silver Line | Sheer Mag | 2019 | |
Stardog Champion | Mother Love Bone | 1992 | |
Take Me Home, Country Roads | John Denver | 1971 | Peaked at No. 2 in the United States. [6] Was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998. [7] One of the four West Virginia state songs. [8] |
Take Me Home, Country Roads; Fallout 76 Version | Copilot Music and Sound | 2018 | Made for the game Fallout 76. Peaked at No. 21 on US Country Digital Songs chart. [9] |
That Happy Night | The Stanley Brothers | 1959 | |
The Girl from West Virginia | Doyle Lawson | 2004 | |
The Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia | Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard | 1973 | |
The Legend of John Henry's Hammer | Johnny Cash | 1963 | |
The Man from Bowling Green | Johnny Paycheck | 1977 | |
The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth | Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | 2006 | Peaked at No. 67 in Scotland. [10] |
The West Virginia Hills | Henry Everett Engle | 1885 | One of the four West Virginia state songs. [11] [12] [13] |
The Wreck of the Virginian | Blind Alfred Reed | 1927 | |
They Don't Make 'em Like My Daddy | Loretta Lynn | 1974 | Peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. [14] |
This Protector | The White Stripes | 2001 | |
This Is My West Virginia | Iris Bell | 1963 | One of the four West Virginia state songs. [12] [13] |
West Virginia Fantasies | Chicago | 1970 | |
West Virginia Gals | Al Hopkins | 1928 | |
West Virginia Mine | Jackie DeShannon | 1970 | |
West Virginia, My Home | Hazel Dickens | 1980 | |
West Virginia, My Home Sweet Home | Julian G. Hearne, Jr. | 1947 | One of the four West Virginia state songs. [12] [13] |
West Virginia Woman | Bobby Bare & Billy Joe Shaver | 1971 | |
Wheeling, West Virginia | Neil Sedaka | 1970 | Peaked at No. 20 in Australia in early 1970. [15] |
Wild West Virginia | Daniel Johnston | 1981 |
John Denver's folksy, bucolic ramble "Take Me Home, Country Roads" also peaked at #2...