Songs That Mention Walking

Updated on November 05, 2021

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What'due south your favorite vocal that includes the word walking or applies to walking? The list is of possibilities is lengthy. You may want to make upwardly a walking-themed playlist to listen to as you lot walk outdoors or on the treadmill.

Walking to music tin can motivate you to walk farther. It tin as well help you maintain your pace. And lastly, listening to music while you walk can make the experience more enjoyable—which can help y'all to walk more regularly and stick to your practice program.

Always be sure to use safety precautions and vesture earbuds or headphones that permit in ambience sounds when y'all walk outdoors.

Favorite Walking Songs

These songs are certain to inspire you to walk further and walk harder during workouts.

  • "Bakery Street," Gerry Rafferty ("low-cal in your head and dead on your feet...")
  • "Fire Walk With Me (Twin Peaks Theme)" equanimous by Angelo Badalamenti
  • "Fancy-free," Kenny Loggins
  • "I Tin can Encounter Clearly At present (the Rain Is Gone)," Johnny Nash
  • "I Go Walkin' After Midnight," Patsy Cline
  • "I'one thousand Gonna Be," The Proclaimers ("I would walk 500 miles...")
  • "I'chiliad Walkin'," Fats Domino (yes indeed, I'm talkin'...)
  • "I Walk the Line," Johnny Greenbacks
  • "Love's Been Skillful To Me," Rod McKuen ("I have been a rover, I have walked alone...")
  • "Tennessee Bird Walk," Jack Blanchard and Misty Morgan
  • "The Happy Wanderer" ("My knapsack on my back, val-de-ree...")
  • "The Long and Winding Road," the Beatles
  • "These Boots Are Fabricated for Walkin'," Nancy Sinatra
  • "Walk Like a Man," Frankie Valli and the 4 Seasons
  • "Walk Like an Egyptian," the Bangles
  • "Walk of Life," Dire Straits
  • "Walk Right In," Rooftop Singers/New Christy Minstrels
  • "Walk This Mode," Aerosmith and Run DMC
  • "Walkin' on the Sun," Boom Oral cavity
  • "Walking in a Wintertime Wonderland"
  • "Walking in Rhythm" The Blackbyrds
  • "Walking on Air," Katy Perry
  • "Walking on Sunshine," Katrina and the Waves
  • "Wanderer," Dion (he keeps away from Runaround Sue, too!)
  • "You'll Never Walk Lonely" from "Carousel," Andy Williams ("When you walk through a tempest, hold your head up high...")

Songs for Walking Events

Recall of these the next fourth dimension you are out on a volkswalker or 10K walking event.

  • "A Walk in the Black Wood" (that'southward where the IVV began)
  • "Cool Walk," Oscar Peterson Trio (far preferred to hot walks)
  • "Easy Walker," Stanley Turrentine
  • "I Shall Not Walk Alone," Ben Harper
  • "I Took a Walk," Shawn Phillips
  • "I Walk Solitary," Tarja
  • "I Was Born Under A Wandering Star," Lee Marvin (boring-paced song non recommended to set a racewalking pace)
  • "I'll Walk With Y'all" (the "Touched Past An Angel" theme, sung past Della Reese)
  • "Joy Walk," William Belote
  • "Merely Walkin' in the Rain," Johnny Ray
  • "Continue Walkin' On," Faith Hill featuring Shelby Lynn
  • "Lonesome Route," Sonny Stitt
  • "Mein Vater war ein Wandersman" (the German original of "The Happy Wanderer")
  • "I Can See for Miles," the Who (the reward for those hill walks!)
  • "Museum Walk," Tangerine Dream (great signal of interest)
  • "Night Walk," Rick Braun
  • "On the Road Again (Turn the Page)," Bob Seger
  • "On the Road Over again," Willie Nelson
  • "One Stride Forward, Two Steps Back," Bruce Springsteen
  • "Ramblin' Boy," Tom Paxton
  • "San Antonio Stroll," Tanya Tucker (home of the AVA)
  • "Take a Walk," Michael Brecker
  • "Telegraph Road," Dire Straits ("walked thirty miles with a pack on his dorsum")
  • "The Dirt Road," Sawyer Brown
  • "The Walk," Sawyer Brown and T. Lavitz
  • "The Walker," Duane Eddy
  • "The Way We Walk," Genesis
  • "Walk All Over Georgia," Louisiana Red
  • "Walk Abroad a Winner," Kathy Mattea
  • "Walk Don't Run," Ventures (you lot can go your own footstep, and run if y'all wish)
  • "Walk in the Night," Inferior Walker/All Stars
  • "Walk Into Light," Ian Anderson
  • "Walk On," Neil Young, Reba McEntire, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
  • "Walk on the Water," Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • "Walk Out in the Rain," Eric Clapton
  • "Walk Softly," Billy "Crash" Craddock
  • "Walk Softly on the Bridges," Mel Street
  • "Walk Alpine," Count Basic
  • "Walk the Dog," Laurie Anderson
  • "Walkin' and Talkin,'" The Marshall Tucker Band
  • "Walkin' and Talkin' to Myself," Ray Charles
  • "Walkin' Dorsum to San Antonio," Hank Thompson
  • "Walking By Myself," Jimmy Rogers and Johnny Wintertime
  • "Walkin' By the River," Ella Fitzgerald
  • "Walkin' Downwardly the Route," The Ozark Mountain Daredevils
  • "Walkin' In The Pelting With the One I Dearest," Love Unlimited
  • "Walking Human," James Taylor
  • "Walking Shoes," Tanya Tucker
  • "Walking Slow," Jackson Browne
  • "Walking Through the Country," Grass Roots
  • "Wandering," James Taylor
  • "Wanna Get Walking," Bruce Cockburn
  • "The Style I Walk," Jack Scott
  • "We Both Walk," Lorrie Morgan
  • "When I Achieve the Place I'k Going," Patty Loveless
  • "Wherever I May Roam," Metallica
  • "Women Walk More Determined," Kristin Lems

Songs for Tough Walks

When you demand some inspiration to pick upwards the pace, consider some of these songs.

  • "Confronting the Wind," Bob Seger
  • "A Walk Across the Rooftops," The Blueish Nile
  • "A Walk in the Clouds," Maurice Jarre
  • "Walk on the Wild Side," Lou Reed
  • "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" from "The Sound of Music" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II)
  • "Journey to the Center of the World," Rick Wakeman (entirely about a long walk)
  • "Walk Between Raindrops," Donald Fagen
  • "Walk Into the Wind," Vegas featuring Siobhan Fahey
  • "Walk on the Body of water," Toad the Moisture Sprocket
  • "Walking Across Egypt," The Tarwater Band
  • "Walking in Space," Quincy Jones
  • "Walking in the Wind," Traffic
  • "Walking on a Thin Line," Huey Lewis and the News
  • "Walking on Broken Glass," Annie Lennox
  • "Walkin' All Nighttime," Piffling Feat
  • "Walking Through Burn," Mary Chapin Carpenter

Try creating a customized walking playlist that starts with medium-paced songs for your warm-up, then switches to faster tracks to go on yous moving during your master workout, and finishes with slower songs to assistance you current of air down while you absurd off and stretch.

More Walking Songs

These songs may non have made the "Favorites" list, simply they are still dandy additions to your walking playlist.

  • "All Walk Alone," Karla Bonhoff
  • "Bailey's Walk," Pixies
  • "Cat Walk," John Coltrane
  • "Don't Walk Abroad Renee," The Left Banke
  • "Dream Walk," Keiko Matsui
  • "Liberty Walk," The Outlaws
  • "Just a Closer Walk With Thee," Patsy Cline and Willie Nelson
  • "Just Walk Abroad," Celine Dion
  • "Leaving Here Walking," Jimmy Burns
  • "Maniac," Michael Sorbello
  • "One 24-hour interval I Walk," Bruce Cockburn
  • "Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line," Waylon Jennings
  • "Rebel Walk," Duane Eddy
  • "She Walked Beside the Wagon," Lorrie Morgan
  • "Sleep Walk," Santo and Johnny
  • "Sometimes by Step," Rich Mullins
  • "Stray Cat Strut," the Stray Cats
  • "The Stroll," The Diamonds
  • "Tiger Walk," Robben Ford
  • "Nether the Boardwalk," The Drifters
  • "Walk," Pantera
  • "Walk a Mile In My Shoes," Elvis Presley
  • "Walk a Thin Line," Fleetwood Mac
  • "Walk All Over You," AC/DC
  • "Walk Away From Love," David Ruffin
  • "Fields of Gilt," Sting
  • "Walk in My Listen," The Siegel-Schwall Band
  • "Walk My Way," Beth Nielsen Chapman
  • "Walk on Past," Dionne Warwick
  • "Walk on Faith," Mike Reid
  • "Walk on Out of My Mind," Waylon Jennings
  • "Walk Right Back," Anne Murray
  • "Walk Right On," Stefan Andersson
  • "Walk Correct Upward to the Lord's day," The Delfonics
  • "Walk Softly on This Center of Mine," Nib Monroe
  • "Walk the Dinosaur," George Clinton/Goombas
  • "Walk the Manner the Wind Blows," Hot Rize, Kathy Mattea
  • "Walk Through This Earth With Me," George Jones
  • "Walk to the Water," U2
  • "Walk Together Rock Together," 7 Seconds
  • "Walk Under Ladders," Joan Armatrading
  • "Walk With Organized religion in your Centre." The Bachelors
  • "The Walk," Sawyer Brownish
  • "Walkaway Joe," Trisha Yearwood ft. Don Henley
  • "Walkin' a Broken Heart," Don Williams
  • "Walkin' After Midnight," Garth Brooks
  • "Walkin' Away," Clint Black
  • "Walkin' Back to Georgia," Jim Croce
  • "Walkin' Blues," Robert Johnson
  • "Walkin' My Babe Dorsum Domicile," Nat King Cole
  • "Walkin' on the Moon," The Dream ft. Kanye West
  • "Walkin' the Dog," Aerosmith
  • "Walkin' the Flooring Over You," Ernest Tubb
  • "Walkin' to New Orleans," Fats Domino
  • "Walking and Crying," BB King
  • "Walking Away," Information Social club
  • "Walking Dorsum to Richmond," Dry out Branch Fire Team
  • "Walking Downwardly Madison," Kristy MacColl
  • "Walking Dream," Patsy Cline
  • "Walking In 50.A.," Missing Persons
  • "Walking in the Shadow Of The Dejection," Whitesnake
  • "Walkin' on the Sun," Smash Mouth
  • "Walking in the Sunshine," Roger Miller
  • "Walking into Sunshine," Central Line
  • "Walking My Cat Named Dog," Norma Tanega
  • "Walking on the Moon," the Police
  • "Walking the Blues," Willie Dixon
  • "Walking the Boogie," John Lee Hooker
  • "Walking the Ghost," James
  • "Walking Up Solitary," David Soul
  • "Walks Like a Lady," Journey
  • "Waltz Beyond Texas," Ernest Tubb
  • "When Y'all Walk in the Room," Paul Carrack
  • "Who Walks In When I Walk Out?" Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald
  • "Women Walk the Line," Emmylou Harris

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