If you found this page, chances are you grew up in the Magnolia State and are looking for some good country songs about Mississippi that you can play to represent your home state. These are our favorite country songs about Mississippi, with songs written by Faith Hill, Conway Twitty, Reba McEntire, and more greats.
Most of these are country songs with Mississippi in the title, although the song doesn’t need to have that in the title. Do you have a favorite Mississippi country song that isn’t on the list? Let us know and we’ll add it!
1. Faith Hill Mississippi Girl
The lead single from her 2005 album Fireflies, Faith shows off her Ridgeland, Mississippi pride with “Mississippi Girl.” The song was meant as kind of a come back country song for Hill, where she declares that a little fame hasn’t given her a big head- “‘Cause a Mississippi girl don’t change her ways / Just ’cause everybody knows her name.”
2. Hank Williams III Mississippi Mud
From his second studio album Lovesick, Broke and Driftin’, “Mississippi Mud” by Hank Williams III is a song about partying in the countryside of Mississippi. The narrator of the song confesses he was raised by an angry alligator, and that he likes to drink his shots straight out of the jug.
3. Merle Haggard- Miss the Mississippi and You
A tribute to Jimmie Rodgers, Haggard covered this song on his 1969 album Same Train, A Different Time: A Tribute to Jimmie Rodgers. The song is the classic tale of a country boy who feels lost in the big city, badly wanting to return back to his home state and the people who love him.
4. John Anderson- Mississippi Moon
Written by Tony Joe White and Carson Whitsett, John Anderson released “Mississippi Moon” on his 1995 album Country ’til I Die. The narrator of the song misses his home state of Mississippi, and recalls all the memories he had growing up that happened under the Mississippi moon.
5. Ray Stevens Mississippi Squirrel Revival
A novelty country song, Ray Stevens’ “Mississippi Squirrel Revival” is about a crazy squirrel that escapes during church and begins wreaking havoc on the service. Does that need any more of an explanation? Just listen to it, it’s good for a few laughs.
6. Sugarland Down in Mississippi (Up to No Good)
From Sugarland’s debut album Twice the Speed of Life, “Down in Mississippi (Up to No Good)” is a kind of “girls night out” anthem song to listen to on a Friday night while you’re getting ready to go out- “Friday, payday, Lordy got to get away / Had it with the wife thing, living on a shoe string / What’s a poor girl got to do just to have some fun?”
7. Sheryl Crow - Mississippi
Found on her third studio album The Globe Sessions in 1998, “Mississippi” is a famous Sheryl Crow cover of the Bob Dylan song of the same name.
8. Reba McEntire - Muddy Mississippi
Muddy Mississippi by Reba McEntire is a song about making mistakes. The narrator of the song recalls how she met a nice boy and went to New Orleans, but did things there that she will always regret- “I lost my pride I lost my man / I did things a girl like me shouldn’t do.”
9. Conway Twitty - Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man
A classic by Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn, this song about two lovers who cross the state border to see each other is one of my favorite duets of all time. The song appeared on the 1973 album of the same name.
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