There is a lot of music about hitchhiking. Let's try to collect it here :)
Digihitch has an extensive list of songs that deal with hitchhiking and life on the road in general. Only a small percentage are explicitly about hitchhiking, though.
Songs about hitchhiking
- Atlanta Rhythm Section - Hitch-Hiker's Hero
- The Doors - The Hitchhiker
- Green Day - Hitchin' a ride
- HitchHike - Travel Girl
- Marvin Gaye - Hitchhike
- Neil Young - Hitchhiker
- Old Crow Medicine Show - Wagon Wheel
- Pearl Jam - Hitchhiker
- Red Sovine - Phantom 309
- Simon and Garfunkel - America
- Vanity Fare - Hitchin' a ride
- The White Stripes - Icky Thump
- Teitur - Hitchhiker
Songs mentioning hitchhiking
Songs about travelling, road tripping, ...
- Iggy Pop - The Passenger
- Fastball - The Way
- The Dandy Warhols - Get off
- Stuart A. staples - Leaving Songs (all album)
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Road Trippin'
In other languages
Danish
German
- Pascow - Trampen nach Norden
- Egotronic - Trampprinzip
French
- Le Taulard (free download) - Les dangers du stop
- Elaoin Sdretu (free download) - Tomame (French and Spanish)
Polish
- Karen Stanek - Autostop
Music While Hitchhiking
Some people think that it goes almost without saying that you shouldn't have earphones in while standing next to the road, that it is inconvenient and dangerous as you hear less than normal and also very rude when drivers who take the time and effort to stop for you get the feeling your music is more important to you than they are. Other people think that it's a valuable way of raising your mood and passing quality time waiting, benefiting drivers as well as your mood rises. Just take them out when somebody stops.