Santa Can't Stay

Have to give Dwight Yoakam credit... his Christmas song somehow fits a niche that to my mind really hasn't been filled, until he did that song (Santa Can't Stay). Johnny cash had Blue Christmas, and Elvis covered Christmas from every angle... but nobody had really addressed the Christmas described in that song. I don't want to admit to it, but I can identify with a dysfunctional Christmas. There is always someone trying to reload happy Christmas songs somewhere, possibly to try and save the whole event from the total disaster it seems to be headed for, like the premonition of some train wreck. None of us can escape the holidays, so we hunker down like the guy on the trap seat of the water dunk at the county fair. All this is said tongue-in-cheek... more of memories of childhood Christmas's (like in Dwight's song) long past... Christmas's got a lot better, but that doesn't mean all those memories can't be used to make great songs (and maybe some royalties). Check out the song...if you're tired of the usual Christmas fare. It's the stealth hit of the season, and only 99¢...