Christmas song No. 8: ‘Santa’s Got a Semi’

Dec 13, 2013

Updated Dec 21, 2021

Written by Keith Harling for his 1999 “Bring it On” record, this one’s a natural for a trucking magazine’s Christmas-songs list, but of course.

The “Santa’s Got a Semi” tune re-imagines the prototypical Christmastime flying-reindeer-powered sleigh as a diesel-powered tractor pulling the biggest, bottomless dry toy van across the world.

(If you missed it a few weeks back, driver Bill Weaver’s tune linked here trafficks in similar themes.)

Hold on, y’all.

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