Little wheel spin and spin

Remember Fay Weldon on Desert Island Discs? She's certainly an interesting person. What is reality? Good question. What I picked up on was the Koestler-esque thus:

One of Ms Weldon's discs was a country & Western trucking song called 'A Tombstone Every Mile'. A bit unexpected perhaps but it had me bouncing up and down in my van on the M60 because Fay Weldon is actually mentioned in an old-time trucking song reported in Great Bus Journeys of the World by David Stafford and Alexei Sayle albeit one about nobel prize-winner Doris Lessing who previously appeared on this blog as a fan of Olaf Stapledon who was a friend of Arthur Koestler. Who would have loved that, had he not killed himself in 1980.

Anyway this is the song:

I've got eighteen wheels on the road
Pulling down this heavy load
Baltimore to that old Pacific Sea
And when the engine stops and I take some feed
When I drink my coffee, well I like to read,
And there's only one writer means anything to me.

Doris Lessing, Doris Lessing,
She's a writer who knows all there is about trucks.
And there surely ain't no messing
When it comes to Doris Lessing,
Well, next to her them other writers sucks.

Well I tell no lie, but I'm telling you
That my daddy was a trucker too
And just before he died he said, 'My son, take heed.
Well I can't give you no advice
About whiskey, women, cards or dice
But when it comes to books there's only one to read.'

Doris Lessing, Doris Lessing,
She's a writer who knows all there is about trucks.
And there surely ain't no messing
When it comes to Doris Lessing,
Well, next to her them other writers sucks.

In a bar way down in Tonopah
Some bad guy really went too far,
Said he thought that Fay Weldon was real fine.
Like all other truck drivers' literary discussions
Well, this one ended in concussion
When I punched him clear across the county line.

Doris Lessing, Doris Lessing,
She's a writer who knows all there is about trucks.
And there surely ain't no messing
When it comes to Doris Lessing,
Well, next to her them other writers sucks.