Environmental Songs for a United Sense of Place
A sense of place and appreciation for where one lives inspires many environmental songs. Many singer/songwriters also bear witness to the changes and environmental harms to the places they care about.
This curated green song list includes just a few of the 750 songs in our earth song database database that reflect a sense of place and a plea for more simple living. More specifically, these environmental songs of unity, reflect a shared sense of place and the diversity of our 50 United States.
This list is by no means complete. We welcome your song ideas and contributions.
Alabama Environmental Songs
- Ned Mudd and the Blacklight Sombreros, “Alabama” and “Developers Go Build in Hell”
- Lynyrd Skynyrd, “Things Goin’ On”; “Simple Man”; “I’m a Country Boy”
Alaska Environmental Songs
- Jack Gladstone, “Alaska Long Live On”
- Susan Grace, “Sweet Alaska”
- Waterbound, “Alaska’s Worth More”
- Susan Aglukark, “Song of the Land” (Inuit)
- Waterbound, “Alaska’s Worth More”
- The Euphoniously Feminist & Non-Perfoming Quintet, “Calyoquot Sound)
- Si Kahn, “Mount Polley Mine Disaster,” and “Pebble Mine”
Arizona Environmental Songs
- Bill Oliver & Glen Waldeck, “Grand Canyon Rendezvous”
- Walkin’ Jim Stoltz, “The Brand New Grand Canyon Suite”
- Katie Lee, “They Crucified My River”
- Randy Travis, “Blue Mesa”
Arkansas Environmental Songs
- Kate Campbell, “When Panthers Roamed in Arkansas”
California Environmental Songs
- Lillian Allen, “I Dream a Redwood”
- Banana Slug String Band, “California Sea Otter”
- Joanne Rand, “California’s Burning”
- Suzanne McDermott, “In the California Sun”
- Malvina Reynolds, “It Isn’t Nice”
- Rita Hosking, “California”
- Timothy Hull, “Sacromento River Tune”
- Malvina Reynolds, “The Day the Highway Froze”
- Malvina Reynolds, “Little Boxes”
- Rita Hosking, “California”
- Carol Denney, “PG&E Song”
- Black Irish Band, “Grizzly of Old California”
Colorado Environmental Songs
- Sons of the San Joaquin, “In My Colorado Home”
- Earth Guardians, “What the Frack”
- John Denver, “Rocky Mountain High”
- Samples, “Nature”
Connecticut Environmental Songs
Delaware Environmental Songs
- Mike Breen, “Waters of Delaware”
Florida Environmental Songs
- Dale and Linda Crider, “Wild Panther, the Big Guy”
- Dale Crider, “Foreverglades”
- Rod MacDonald, “The Aucilla River song”
- Rod MacDonald, “Out in the Country”
- Okefenokee Joe, “Everglades Symphony”
Georgia Environmental Songs
- Joanne Rand, “Georgia”
- Joanne and Rebecca Steele, “Song for the Land”
- Robert Hoyt, “Red Mud”
Hawaii Environmental Songs
- Israel Kamakawiwo’ole, “Somewhere over the Rainbow”
Idaho Environmental Songs
- Ranger Doug, “Idaho Moon”
- Bob Wells, “Along the Salmon River”
- Walkin’ Jim Stoltz, “I’m Going Back to Idaho”
Illinois Environmental Songs
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Kansas Environmental Songs
- Magpie, “Seed on the Prairie”
Kentucky Environmental Songs
- John Prine, “Paradise”
Louisiana Environmental Songs
- Robert Hoyt, “Atchafalaya”
Maine Environmental Songs
- Annie Wenz, “Reaching Katahdin Soon”
- Stan Rogers, “Make and Break Harbor”
- John Lincoln Wright, “Wild and High”
Maryland Environmental Songs
- Doanna Cooper, Dr. James A Duke – “Mountain Laurel”
- Jim Duke, “Chesapeake Hideaway”
Massachusetts Environmental Songs
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Minnesota Environmental Songs
- Jerry Vandiver – “The Spirit of Fishdance Lake”
Mississippi Environmental Songs
- Gene LaFond, “Mississippi River Song”
Montana Environmental Songs
- Coyote Angel Band, “Song of Montana”
- Walkin’ Jim Stoltz, “Mornin’ in the Mountains”; “Tales of Yellowstone;” “Montana Moon in the Pines”
- Ron Cisar, “Spell of Yellowstone”
Nebraska Environmental Songs
- Stan Slaughter, “Ogalalla”
Nevada Environmental Songs
- Walkin’ Jim Stoltz, “Nevada Walking Song”
New Hampshire Environmental Songs
- Tom Smith, “New Hampshire Wind
- Michael Caduto, “New Hampshire Autumn”
New Jersey Environmental Songs
- The Short Sisters, “Home in Old New Jersey”
New Mexico Environmental Songs
- Red Thunder (Robby Romero), “Heartbeat”
- XIT, “I Was Raised”
New York Environmental Songs
- Pete Seeger, “My Dirty Stream (The Hudson River Song)
- Rory Block, “The Spirit Returns”
- The Burns Sisters, “Gas Man”
- Dan Berggren and Friends, “Adirondack Green”
North Carolina Environmental Songs
- Bob Patterson, “My Carolina Dreams”
- Bob Patterson, “A Place in My Heart”
- Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, “Return to the Dismal Swamp”
- Railroad Earth, “Grandfather Mountain”
North Dakota Environmental Songs
- Silent Bear, “The Dakota Access Pipeline Dirty River Blues”
Ohio Environmental Songs
- Mike Morningstar and Rick Roberts, “Ohio Valley”
- Lydia Adams Davis, “Lake Erie”
Oklahoma Environmental Songs
- Bruce Springstein, “My Oklahoma Home”
- Woody Guthrie, “The Great Dust Storm”
- T.E. Kellison Warren, “Don’t Drive into Smoke”
Oregon Environmental Songs
- Fred Small, “Heart of the Appaloosa” (remembering Chief Jospeh – Rolling Thunder of the Mountains of the Nez Perce and the Wallowa Valley of Oregon
- Alice Di Micele, “One with the Tide”
- Cecelia Ostrow, “My Sweet Oregon Home”
- Katya Chorover, “Company Towns”
- Rob Tobias and the Northwest Express, “Bless All the Land”
Pennsylvania Environmental Songs
- Jim Beer (Lenape), “The River”
Rhode Island Environmental Songs
South Carolina Environmental Songs
- Michael Murphy, “Carolina in the Pines”
South Dakota Environmental Songs
- John Trudell, “Rockin the Rez” “All There Is To It”
- Marty Stuart, “Badlands”
- Larry Long, “Sacred Black Hills”
- Rainbow Girls, “Song for Standing Rock”
Tennessee Environmental Songs
- Dolly Parton, “My Tennesse Mountain Home”
- Andrew McKnight, “Gatlinburg”
- Will Linder, “Tennessee Lament”
- Michael Jonathon, “In the Woods”
- Sean McCollough, “West Knoxville”
Texas Environmental Songs
- Bill Oliver, “Texas Oasis”
- Carolyn Hester, “Flatlands of Texas”
- Bill Oliver, Glen Waldeck, and the Otter Space Band, “Have to Have a Habitat”
- Jerry Jeff Walker, “Keep Texas Beautiful”
- Tish Hinojosa, “Something in the Rain”
Utah Environmental Songs
- Utah Philips and Ani Difranco, “Natural Resources”
Vermont Environmental Songs
- Banjo Dan, “Striped Maple”
- Banjo Dan, “The Catamount is Back”
- Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen, “The Vermont Waltz”
- Rik Pallerie, “Hills of Old Vermont”
Virginia Environmental Songs
- Joyce Johnson Rouse (Earth Mama), “Virginia Beauty”
- Page Wilson with Reckless Abandon, “Virginia”
- Joanne Rand, “Shenandoah”
- Carrie Newcomer, “Do no harm”
Washington Environmental Songs
- Alice Di Micele, “Chinook Blues”
West Virginia Environmental Songs
- Mike Morningstar, “Mountaineers are Always Free”
- Kate Long, “Not for Sale”
- Davisson Brothers Band, “Dark as a Dungeon”; “Found Dead on a Fence line”
- John Denver, “Country Roads”
- Atwater & Donnelly “When I go to West Virginia”
- Todd Burge, “Up in the West Virginia Hills”
- Peggy Eyres, “Life of a Mountaineer”
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