“McArthur” is a song written by Micheal Hardy at Big Loud Records, but no one realized what this one song could entail. Eric Church, Tim McGraw, Hardy, and Morgan Wallen all mysteriously put a post on their social media saying their part in this song.

The song “McArthur” is about the legacy and all the things that you leave behind when you die. Each artist was given a different personality/generation in the family tree. Tim McGraw was John McArthur born November 2, 1920 and died November 22, 1963.  Junior McArthur portrayed by Eric Church was born September 20, 1945 and died April 4, 1967. Hardy was Jones McArthur born June 5, 1968 and died January 5, 2025. The only surviving McArthur is Morgan Wallen as Hunter McArthur born May 13, 1993. 

It starts with John McArthur discussing the work he put into the fields of the McArthur land until he died and they buried him in it. McGraw’s character shows the work he did to help keep his family alive stating, “I kept my family fed with a mule and a plow.” Junior McArthur is next in line, but his life on the McArthur land was short lived. Junior was killed in action, so the land was passed on to Jones McArthur, his son that he never got to meet. Jones spent his time convincing his son, Hunter, to not sell the land. The current owner of the McArthur land is Hunter McArthur, who has deals from agencies to buy the land and create a neighborhood. At the end of Wallen’s lines as Hunter you hear, “but there’s a whisper in the pines that’s telling me don’t.” The whisper is John McArthur because he doesn’t want the land that has been passed down through the McArthur family to be sold. 

At the end of the song they ask, “when you pass on, what you gonna pass down?” That one line discusses that when you die, what is the thing that are you going to pass down for generations to come. That one thing is a part of your legacy that you are leaving behind in this world on the land you lived on.