Heck of a Guy Blogster Allan Showalter has come up with a list of Illinois-written songs appropriate for ill-starred Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.

Here are the first ten:

• “Kind of a Drag,” Buckinghams
• “Down Low (Nobody Has to Know)” R. Kelly
• “Illegal Smile” John Prine
• “I Confess” New Colony Six
• “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy” Buckinghams
• “Surrender” Cheap Trick
• “The Search Is Over” Survivor
• “When I Think About Cheatin’” Gretchen Wilson
• “Here for the Party” Gretchen Wilson
• “The Lincoln Park Pirates” Steve Goodman

For the rest, click here.

“Jailhouse Rock” was not written by an Illinois resident.