Geez, Chad, GOOGLE IT! The Leonid meteor shower in 1833 that was so intense people said it looked like the sky was actually falling.

Here, the wiki about the song and the event that precipitated it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars_Fell_on_Alabama

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