This piece originally appeared on How Pants Work here: 12 Country Songs Memorializing Made-Up Tragedies
- The Day the Corvettes Cried by Luke Bryan — the Bowling Green Massacre
- Hergin Flergin in the Bergin by Kelly Pickler (feat. the Swedish Chef) — the Swedish Terror Attack
- Burn It to the Ground by Toby Keith — the Existence of Chicago as a U.S. City
- One Less Portland by Kenny Chesney — the Mysterious Disappearance of Portland, Maine
- Bourne in Our Hearts by Martina McBride — Matt Damon’s Helicopter Crash, Multiple Surgeries, Coma, and Death
- Suburban Ohio Sunset by Alan Jackson — the Akron Children’s Place Sniper
- Hot Dog by Eddie Arnold — the Death of the Original Lassie by Lightning Strike
- Franky Took Franky by Rascal Flatts — Franklin Graham’s Conversion to Catholicism
- Never Fly Back Again by Pam Tillis — Jessica’s Bangs of 1998
- Patriot Pants by John Conlee — the Death of Apollo Creed
- Remember the Alamocha by Colin Ray — Davy Crockett’s Failed Coffee Shop
- Blowhole by Big & Rich — the Seattle Suicide Bomber Inside the Great Seattle Sinkhole
