Two of Mrs. Tamble's siblings drive trucks for a living, and her dad also drove a truck in his younger days, so it's only natural that she holds a special place in her heart for the songs of Red Sovine, who was to trucking songs what Chris LeDoux was to cowboy songs. Arguably, Mr. Sovine's biggest hit was one of his last, 1976's "Teddy Bear," a weeper of a hard-luck song that told the story of a crippled little boy (whose CB handle was "Teddy Bear") who lost his trucker dad in a wreck, and his mom is struggling to make ends meet. Teddy Bear was looking for someone to chat with on his late dad's CB radio, and told the narrator (Sovine) about all that he'd been through and how sad it was that he'd never get to ride in a truck since his dad died.
As it turns out, a bunch of other truckers had been listening in on the conversation, and when Sovine went to pick the boy up to give the boy a ride in his truck, he had to wait in line behind three blocks' worth of other truckers who also had the same idea. Sovine narrated in the song (somewhere in the same verse as "That little crippled boy was having a ball") - and try singing this in a karaoke bar with a straight face:
"I took my turn at riding Teddy Bear ..."
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