Yee Haw-liday: varmints

Xmas animals have been manipulated variously on this blog, but there’s always one more on the loose.

Most comic songs about killing Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer are country howlers that don’t approach the cowboy mystique. But Fortress of Attitude’s “I Shot Rudolph and I’m Sorry” has got the bang-bang twang of real rawhide (not to mention frontier justice from Santa himself). Just genius.

Coyote Christmas” features some rudimentary yodeling and sentimental anthropomorphizing from Liz Anderson.