10 Country Songs to Make Your Leap Day Count

We’ve got an extra day! Well, sort of… we know that’s not exactly how leap years work. But for a memorable Feb 29^th 2024 you could catch the last night of the Ward Thomas acoustic tour, check out the Bristol bar that’s putting on a new country night, or splurge with the Leap Day discounts flooding our inboxes (“hello” ASOS cowboy boots reduced to £36).

However if, like us, you’re doing nothing special, can’t believe it’s almost March and don’t have a bloke to propose marriage to, here are the 10 Country / Americana songs which inspire us to make the most of this and every day.

1. Gabby Barrett, Dance Like No One’s Watching (2024)

…dance like no one’s watchin’
Whatever you do
And if life gives you love, fall in, but always be you
Oh, ’cause, girl, it’s a big world and it’s so easy to get lost in
So, dance like no one’s watchin’

2. Luke Combs, Dear Today (2019)

So maybe you should call our mama
Have a drink with our old man
Quit wastin’ our sweet time
And put that diamond on her hand…

2. Lainey Wilson, Hold My Halo (2022)

I got a neon side
I let her shine sometimes
Sitting like a devil on my shoulder
Tonight I’m gonna let her take over…

4. Kenny Chesney, Live a Little (2010)

I need to live a little, have some fun
Take some time, waste it on number one…

5. The Highwomen, My Name Can’t Be Mama (2019)

Today I didn’t listen to the voice inside my head
I peeled out of the driveway left my family in bed…

6. Cody Johnson, ‘Til You Can’t (2021)

If you got a chance, take it, take it while you got a chance
If you got a dream, chase it, ’cause a dream won’t chase you back…

7. 49 Winchester, Fortune Favours the Bold (2022)

Well, I could sit here on my couch all day
Wish my whole damn life away
Or I could get up off my ass and grab the bull by the horns…

8. Jordan Davis [ft. Luke Bryan], Buy Dirt (2021)

‘Cause the truth about it is
It all goes by real quick
You can’t buy happiness
But you can buy dirt”

9. Chapel Hart, Glory Days (2023)

So love every minute, live while you’re in it, if you’re gonna fight, fight to win it…

10. Tim McGraw, Live Like You Were Dying (2004)

I went skydiving, I went Rocky Mountain climbing
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fumanchu
And I loved deeper, and I spoke sweeter
And I gave forgiveness I’d been denying”
And he said someday I hope you get the chance
To live like you were dying…

Have we missed any? What’s your “Carpe Diem” anthem?

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