Well, truckers do have a sense of being on-road Santas. Only they’re better at it.
Yankee Lee Arnold has fun with the CB lingo craze when yet another trucker helps another broke down Santa in “A Trucker’s Christmas.” Despite the sense of childlike wonder and girl chorusong it smells of exploitation. Doesn’t flick my Bic.
William Weaver, professional driver amateur songman, strums earnestly through his story of “How the Truck Drivers Saved the Christmas Holiday.” Bear up through his first minute of flailing around and you might enjoy this unplugged cowboy poet pluggin’ away.
I guess it’s that sense of superiority that gives us all these songs. Truckers have to be cooler, cannier, tenaciouser than that one-night-a-year deliverer. He could use their help. Trucker Steve whitelines more roadster rock with “The Day Truckers Saved Christmas” complete with over-enthusiastic ho-ing by a band member. Caution: Santa sustains grievous harm during the telling of this tale.