What the song titles would be if Sufjan really did every state
Alabama

--My Sister in Her Ham Costume and the Things He Would Bring To Us
--Our King, the Reverend Doctor, May You Live on in the Hearts of Men!
--Where Doth the Yellow Hammer Rammer Jammer
Alaska

--Seward's Folly
--Inuit Spirits, Appear Unto Me!
--Sarah Palin (in the style of the John Wayne Gacy song)
--O Great Northern Exposure, Stream Once More into Our Homes
Arizona

--To the Canyon, Echoing Our Salvation
--Senator John McCain Lives and Carries the Burdens of Earth
--By the Time I Get to Arizona, Oh My Sweet Grandfather, I Shall Kiss You 'pon Thy Cheek
--For Maynard James Keenan As He Caresses a Spaceship
Arkansas

--At the King Biscuit Blues Festival I Saw Upon Your Face a Tear
--A Young George Takei Plays with Another Boy in the Dust
--Arkansas, Oh, Oh, Oh
--Buffalo National River Suite Parts I, II and III
California

--Joseph James DeAngelo
--Herbert Mullin
--Charlie Manson
--The Zodiac Reveals Himself to Two Young Lovers by the Lake
Colorado

--Unto Dick Halloran is Given a Vision
--Butch Cassidy Ascends
--'pon the Mountaintop I Did Smoke the Kind Bud
Connecticut

--Willimantic Dreams
--He Who Transplanted Still Sustains
--George W. Bush
Delaware

--Hey, We're in Delaware
--At the Annual Punkin Chunkin' Festival, Which is an Event Where Participants Throw Pumpkins with Catapults, I Did Hold You in My Arms
Florida

--Seminole Wind
--Baskin's Lament
--The MILF Hunter Rides Off Into the Dawn, and the Souls of Men Alight
Georgia

--The Walking Dead Are Coming For Us!!!! They Will Teach Us a Lesson About What It Means to Just Survive versus Truly Maintaining Your Humanity!!! In Every Episode!!!!!!!!!!
--Millions of Peaches, Peaches for Thee
--Tin Roof Rusted
I'm definitely gonna keep doing these and not just get tired of it
Hawaii

--O Great Volcano, Spare Us Thy Wrath!
--In the Ignoble Can is the Flesh Preserved (Transubspamtiation Cycle)
Idaho

--The Great Cutthroat Trout Surges Forth Through the Depths of Redfish Lake
--Born in a Trunk in the Princess Theater in Pocatello
--Kindhearted but Rough Napoleon Dances to Triumph and Glory
Indiana

--What Meijer Fresh Hell Is This
--In South Bend the Lord of Rats Prepares his Inevitable Ascent
--April Ludgate
Iowa

--Raymond Carver Puts a Bottle of Bourbon on his Desk and Contemplates Something Unspeakable
--Pants Burn Leg Wound
--Wait and Bleed
Kansas

--Richard Hickock in Repose
--A Young Lex Luthor Seeks Absolution After a Wrestling Match Goes Awry
--I Did Espy Yonder Emerald City, and Would Face No End of Travails to Reach It
Kentucky

--The Colonel Redeemeth His Bloodlust by Feeding the Masses
--Cassius Tussled with the Whale
--In Guntown Mountain Where I Touched Your Brother on the Shoulder
Louisiana

—Give Unto Me Thine Beignets
—I Softly Whispered to the Gator
—On My Birthday a Vampire I Shall Tenderly Kiss
Maine

—I Beseech You Not to Bury My Body where the Pets Lie in the Ground!
—My Brother Was Offered a Red Balloon Then Taken to Float in Glorious Agony Under the Town of Derry
—At Prom the Blood Rained Down Upon My Crown
Maryland

—Our Stepbrother Ate all the Crabcakes and Oh How We Mourned
—The Goatman Rains His Blows Upon the Family Station Wagon from On High
—Behold, Omar Approaches!
Massachusetts

—I Gave to Him Them Apples
—For the Departed, Though They Betray One Another Endlessly in the Next World
—O, How the Bambino’s Curse was Lifted ‘neath the Brow of the Green Monster and Yea, ‘twas Wicked Awesome
Minnesota

—For Morris Day, A Mirror Held Unto Thee
—The Penitence of Crow T. Robot
—A Cry for Every Man’s Father Under the Ice of Lake Wobegon
Mississippi

--Absalom, Absalom!
--The Robber Bridegroom
--Sweet Bird of Youth
Missouri

--Great Compromise Suite
--I Met Yakov Smirnov on the Road to Calvary
--Missouri Business
Montana

--Makeout at the Sweet Pea Carnival
--The Battle of Bear Paw, and the Many Betrothed Who Wept
--General Custer Has Something Stuck in his Teeth
Somebody could easily make a fool out of me by editing the Wikipedia pages for states I haven't done yet
Nebraska

--The Chickenman, and his House, and the Painful Burns he Did Suffer
--Mansion on the Hill
--The Plight of Johnny 99
--Oh, Highway Patrolman! Morally-Compromised Patroller of Our Great Highways!
--My Father's House
Nevada

--Oh Great Mushroom Cloud, You Are My Mother
--Groom Lake
--The Revelation Regarding the Boyfriend Who Looked Like a Girlfriend That I Had in February of Last Year
--Let's Hear it One More Time for Lieutenant Jim Dangle
New Hampshire

--Mount Monadnock in autumn
--The World's Largest Video Arcade
--An Argument Occurring on a Raft in Lake Winnipesaukee
New Jersey

--On Mischief Night I Held Your Hand
--Lo, the Heresies of Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino
--Chrissy Limping Through the Pine Barrens, Draped in a Blanket, Vaguely Aware of his Eventual Fate Even Then
--Gary the Squirrel, Held Aloft in Triumph Over His Enemies
New Mexico

--Marc Maron, Reluctant Messiah, Locks the Gates Once More
--I Wrote Your Name in a Letter and Placed it in the Gloom Box for the Conflagration of Zozobra
--Big Bowl of Sauerkraut Every Single Morning
New York

--For Ithaca, the Journey's End, and Troy, Final Resting Place of Uncle Sam
--Killer Bees on the Swarm
--Patience and Fortitude, Guardians of All Earthly Knowledge
--A Family of Parrots Flies Above the Grave of the Great and Powerful Oz
--Hark! I'm Walkin' Here!
Of course there would also be a 9/11 song and a song about Niagara Falls
North Carolina

--Oh How I Had a Tummyache from Too Much Saltwater Taffy
--I Saw an Angel in a Lighthouse and he Rubbed his Thumb Against My Wrist as he Looked Me in the Eyes and Smiled
--Our Aunt Bought a T-Shirt with a Dirty Word On It
North Dakota

--Jerry Lundegaard Stammering in his Mittens
--Regarding the Disenfranchisement of the Great Sioux Nation
--Lutefisk Waltz
Ohio

--In Lorain a Young Girl Contemplates the Color of Her Friend's Eye and Feels a Great Revulsion That Will Change Literature Forever
--Harvey in Line at the Grocery Store
--At the World's Largest Rocking Chair You Touched the Hem of My Shirt, My Sweet Friend Who Died
Oklahoma

--Timothy McVeigh
--The Mighty Golden Driller Towers Over Us in Tulsa
--An Offer from the Ridge Bond Insurance Company
Oregon

--Regarding the Siskiyou Train Massacre by the DeAutremont Brothers
--John Callahan Unleashes his Dark Visions, and How they Trembled at the Sight of It
--Chuck Pahlaniuk (You Dreamed of a Man with an Imaginary Friend Whose Fistfights Brought Our World to an End)
Pennsylvania

--A Blessing of Water Ice
--Bigg Daddy's Great Electric Grinning Countenance, Suspended Above, Offering to Sell us Wonderful Explosives
--Amish Paradise
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