“I Want Crabs for Christmas” by David Deboy is certifiably the best worst Christmas song that’s ever come out of the great Old Line State.
It was first released in 1981, but for some unknown reason, this Maryland native did not hear the awful (but playfully distastefully and catchy) Baltimore holiday staple til this morning.
The worst part? Now that I’ve metabolized it, it’s gotten less irritating and more endearing each time I hear the lyrics, particularly when enthusiastically belted out by our little guy, T-Rex.
The Verdict:
“I Want Crabs for Christmas” by David Deboy is eggnog spiked with Natty Boh, dusted with Old Bay, scooped up in an Utz potato chip. Trust me, Hon.
Here’s a link to the whole song/video (if you can take it–it’s truly terrible):
About the Author
Audie Cockings
A practicing Gerontologist, happy wife, and mama of four. I play competitive volleyball for fun and exercise and I amuse myself and a modest handful of others with narratives of brainy but thoroughly flawed women and the men who love them. Part heavily embellished almost truths/could-have-beens and part fiction, my characters and stories are loosely based on folks I've met in places I've been...
Interests include living artists, music (everything from 80's rap to Trevor Jones compositions), and foreign films on Netflix (particularly WWII era non-fiction). I LOVE cooking, hiking, and parking my butt in a beach chair at any available body of water.
I believe that curve balls are often blessings in disguise and I'm unapologetic in my support for our military, having been the lucky gal of an Army Ranger.
When we're not at home in Maryland, we're off the grid in Northern Michigan or eating soft-shell lobsta in my newest favorite state, Maine.
My debut novel, "Little Red Rider" (thriller/mystery), was published in 2014. It can easily be found at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Greetings and Readings, an indie bookseller in Baltimore. My second and third novels are currently in the editing stage. They are entitled "The Mole" and "A Girl, A Dog, A Boat".
The Mole is the second of three novels in the Little Red Rider series, a tale of a widowed housewife who's politically charged dreams tell the future before it happens. She uses her dreams to keep her son, a newly minted army ranger, out of danger with the help of her late husband's best friend, a general at the Pentagon.
A Girl, A Dog, A Boat is a women's fiction novel about a medical student who gets pregnant and dumped in the same week. Broke and broken, Ruby figures that a rickety live-aboard is the only way she afford to stay in Annapolis. But the only boat in her price range is located in Maine, a decommissioned lobster boat owned by Jamie, a red-headed hot-tempered retired lobsterman who isn't willing to sell "Deanna Marie" to some stuck up, silly young woman "from away" who can't even drive a car.
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