“Phantom 309,” Red Sovine
This is a haunting tune in which the singer is picked up by Big Joe and his rig the Phantom 309. Big Joe drives the hitchhiker through the night, then drops him off at a rest stop in the morning with some spare change to buy coffee. As he’s getting his coffee, the singer is told that Big Joe died years before; he crashed while trying to avoid a school bus full of children. Haunting, yes.
