Songs About the Rocky Mountains

85 songs reference the Rocky Mountains · Mountains & Ranges.

The Rocky Mountains, often called the Rockies, are a vast mountain range and the largest mountain system in North America, stretching approximately 3,000 miles from Western Canada down to New Mexico in the Southwestern United States. This impressive range, varying from 70 to over 300 miles wide in places, forms the cordilleran backbone of the western North American continent. The Rockies have been home to indigenous peoples for thousands of years, including the Ute and Arapaho tribes, who utilized its resources and shaped its cultural landscape.

The enduring majesty of the Rockies has naturally inspired countless musical tributes. Our collection features 85 songs that reference this iconic landscape, capturing its spirit in diverse ways. From the reflective "Rocky Mountain High" by John Denver to Charley Crockett's "El Paso To Denver" and the storytelling in "Clayton Was a Cowboy" by Jesse Daniel, these artists paint vivid pictures of life and journeys through this remarkable region.

Approximate area of the Rocky Mountains.

The Songs

Colorado Girl
Steve Earle · CO
“The promise in her smile shames the mountains tall”
45%
Colorado
The Brother Brothers · CO
“Mountains of blue and green... From the mountains to the foothills and the plains”
45%
Bar In Baton Rogue
Lainey Wilson · CO
“I ain't nowhere near the Rockies”
45%
Colorado Blues
Ryan Culwell
“I hang down like those Rocky Mountain skies”
45%
The Song Remembers When
Trisha Yearwood
“We were rollin' through the Rockies”
45%
Rocky Mountain High
Allen Stone · CO
“the Colorado Rocky Mountain high”
44%
Rocky Mountain High
Josiah and the Bonnevilles · CO
“But the Colorado Rocky Mountain high”
44%
Please Come To Boston
Wade Bowen · CO
“We'll move up into the mountains so far that we can't be found”
44%
Western Skies
Chris LeDoux
“I gotta be where I can see those Rocky Mountains”
44%
Get Out of Denver
Sam Morrison Band · CO
“Headin' out for the mountains knowin' we were travelin' further”
43%
Twodot, Montana
Hank Williams Jr. · MT
“I've climbed up the Rockies”
43%
Starwood in Aspen
John Denver · CO
“My sweet Rocky Mountain paradise”
43%
Across the Rocky Mountain
Roscoe Holcomb
“Far across the rocky mountain I walked for miles and miles”
43%
Down from the Mountain
The Infamous Stringdusters
“The rocky mountains ease my soul”
43%
Telluride
Tim McGraw
“I headed up to the Rockies”
43%
A Mile High in Denver
Jimmy Buffett · CO
“I heard a lot about the mountains / And the Colorado range / Where the rock meets timberline”
43%
Colorado
Florida Georgia Line · CO
“On a Rocky Mountain high”
42%
Talkin’ Dust Bowl Blues
Woody Guthrie · CO
“Over the mountains, out towards the old Peach Bowl”
42%
Live Like You Were Dying
Tim McGraw
“I went Rocky Mountain climbin'”
42%
Colorado
Paper Bird · CO
“Escape the city in the Rocky Mountain way”
42%
There’s the Sun
Zach Top
“And there's Rocky Mountain highs”
42%
Colorado
Ben Grace · CO
“Would you scale the Rocky Mountains high”
41%
Colorado
Chastity Brown · CO
“I was driving through the mountains of Colorado”
41%
Rocky Mountain Way
Joe Walsh · CO
“Rocky Mountain way”
41%
Five Dollar Bill
Corb Lund · MT
“To git some northern Rocky Mountain kinda tax relief”
41%
New York State of Mind
Billy Joel
“Been high in the Rockies”
41%
Colorado Christmas
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band · CO
“all along the Rockies, you can feel it in the air”
41%
Rocky Mountain Music
Eddie Rabbitt · CO
“Rocky mountain music”
41%
El Paso To Denver
Charley Crockett · CO
“In the Rocky mountain high”
40%
Gibbonsville Gold
Hank Williams Jr. · MT
“the rocky mountain streams”
40%
East Kentucky
Mickey Newbury · CO
“To the mountains of Colorado”
40%
Utah
Ax and the Hatchetmen
“Up through the Rockies”
40%
Montana
Lukas Nelson · MT
“Mountains of memories I can't leave behind”
40%
Rocky Mountain Low
Corey Kent
“Rocky Mountain low”
40%
Rain in Durango
Guy Clark · CO
“Then a Rocky Mountain rain came”
40%
Rocky Mountain Healin’
Ray LaMontagne · CO
“Colorado Rocky Mountain morning”
40%
Colorado
Brown Bird · CO
“Where in June the snow caps the mountains”
40%
February 28, 2016
Koe Wetzel
“Rocky Mountains to Midway with every whore”
39%
Rocky Mountain High
John Denver · CO
“When he first came to the mountains, his life was far away”
39%
Wild Bull Rider
Hoyt Axton
“He rode him cross the Rockies through the rain and the snow”
39%
All The Rivers in Colorado
Cory Branan · CO
“Rocky Mountain... Low”
39%
When It’s Springtime In The Rockies
Gene Autry
“When it's springtime in the Rockies”
39%
The West
Olivia Ellen Lloyd
“But if I reach the Rockies, maybe I could rest”
39%
She Came from the Mountains
Johnny Cash
“She came from the mountains Rocky Mountains eagle-high”
39%
That’s Why I Love Dirt Roads
Granger Smith
“Find our way to a Rocky Mountain top on 'em”
39%
Try Texas
Larry Fleet · CO
“Rocky Mountain high”
16%
Colorado
Drew Green · CO
“On a Rocky Mountain high”
16%
New Hometown
Mike Ryan · CO
“They got the mountains and the legalized pot”
14%
Colorado Kool-Aid
Red Sovine · CO
“Well, it's a can of Coors brewed from a mountain stream”
13%
My Proud Mountains
Townes Van Zandt · CO
“My home is Colorado with her proud mountains tall”
12%
Montana
Chance Pena · CO
“Well, there's somethin' 'bout the mountain air they say is good for your soul”
10%
Colorado
Joey Myron · CO
“somethin' better in the mountains we love”
8%
To The Shining Mountains
Johnny Cash
“Stopped before the shining mountains”
8%
Yesteryear
Pecos & the Rooftops
“rocky mountain weed”
8%
Clayton Was a Cowboy
Jesse Daniel · CO
“Out west of the Rockies, up in Northern California”
7%
Eleanor - Live from the Living Room
The Kruse Brothers
“Pure as the snow on the Rockies”
7%
Colorado Bluebird Sky
The String Cheese Incident · CO
“Was mountains rising to the sky”
7%
America
Austin Plaine
“Head through the Rocky Mountains”
7%
Brownsville Girl
Bob Dylan · CO
“the sun is comin' up over the Rockies”
7%
Chun Swae
Nicki Minaj · CO
“sittin' on ski resort”
7%
Black Sedan
Charley Crockett · CO,MT,WY,ID,UT,NM
“The snow-white Rockies”
7%
Colorado
The Figs (USA) · CO
“But the mountains taught me some new chords today”
6%
Jim Bridger
Johnny Horton
“Once there was a mountain man who couldn't write his name”
6%
A Country Boy Can Survive
Hank Williams Jr.
“And the Rocky Mountains and the western skies”
6%
Colorado Cool-Aid
Johnny Paycheck · CO
“Brewed from a mountain stream”
6%
Bury Me at the Rodeo
The Dirty Nil · CO
“Headin' for the mountains where I think I'm gonna stay”
6%
Fourteen Gears
Midland · CO
“I'll be 'cross the Rocky Mountains in the mornin'”
5%
Colorado Song
The Ozark Mountain Daredevils · CO
“That runs down from the mountain”
5%
Get out of Denver
Eddie and the Hot Rods · CO
“Heading out for all the mountains”
5%
Colorado
Ward Davis · CO
“mountains out in Vail”
5%
Higher Lonesome
Willi Carlisle · CO
“I been drivin' with a death wish down the mountains on my phone”
5%
Lonesome for Her Heroes
Five Iron Frenzy · CO
“The pavement ran to timberline”
5%
Please Come To Boston
Reba McEntire · CO
“We'll move up into the mountains”
5%
River Named Mississippi
Travis Denning · CO
“Rockies in Colorado”
4%
Cool Colorado
La Femme · CO
“des montagnes”
4%
Colorado
The Infamous Stringdusters · CO
“Get my skii on, mountain time”
4%
Bob Fudge
Colter Wall · MT
“And the great snowcapped peaks Are on our left side now”
4%
Lavender Jones
Paul Cauthen
4%
Denver
Clem Snide · CO
“Remember that week in the mountains”
3%
When I Was a Girl in Colorado
Judy Collins · CO
“Will you take me to the mountains”
3%
Meet Me in Montana
Marie Osmond · MT
“I want to see the mountains in your eyes / Meet me underneath that big Montana sky”
3%
Rose From The Mountain
The Flatlanders · CO
“Well she's my Rose from the mountain where I come from”
3%
Hurtin’ Albertan
Corb Lund · CO
“East of the rockies and west of the rest”
2%
Altitude Adjustment
Midland · CO
“this rocky mountain highs put this Tennessee blues to rest”
2%
Land Of The Navajo
Peter Rowan
“Running Elk bet the Rocky Mountains”
2%

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