"If the World Had a Front Porch" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music singer Tracy Lawrence.

The CD and Cassette promo singles contain 30-second excerpts from "Texas Tornado", "I'd Give Anything to Be Your Everything Again", and "The Cards", all from the album, I See It Now.

The narrator talks about traditional family values and the old-fashioned sweetness of spending slow summer hours on the front steps.

The second verse shows views of drugs being dealt, prostitutes walking the streets, footage of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, the O. J. Simpson police chase and violent footage from the Gulf War before the virtual reality goggles are "overloaded" and the word "ABORT" flashes across the computer and video screen and the scenes are replaced with more pleasant clips of school graduations, young children playing with small animals, weddings, couples having their first child and family dinners.

The song debuted at number 43 on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart dated August 5, 1995.