VANCOUVER — It was a dark and stormy night. Wintry, too. Somewhere along the Saskatchewan stretch of the TransCanada four or five years ago, Singer-songwriter Leah Abramson was headed home in her car after a cross-Canada musical tour.

"The weather was really dicey, and suddenly, out of nowhere, there was this horrible accident involving a truck. It was quite sad and scary,” she told todaystrucking.com.

“Right away, my heart went out to the driver, and I thought about others like him.” 

So, Abramson turned something really bad (the accident) into something really quite sweet. A song.

“That accident made me think of all the truckers out there all the time; and I wanted to send something out to them.”

She penned "A Trucker’s Prayer."

Abramson says she was also partly inspired by her grandfather, who was a jack of all trades, including the trucking trade.

“But also, anyone who goes on the roads a lot will notice that there are hundreds of truckers out there and we want them to be safe.”

"I also realize that when I go to the store, whatever stuff I pick up probably got there by truck,” she says. "They’re such an important part of the economy, we take them for granted.”

“I’m so glad we connected,” the Burnaby native said. “I really wanted to send that prayer out to drivers and I didn’t know how we were going to do it.”

You can see a live version of the touching ditty here.

Abramson’s ensemble is called the Abramson singers and their distinctive vocal stylings have caught the ear of audiences ranging from Comox, B.C. to Europe.

A Trucker’s Prayer is on her second album, which was released in February of this year and is available from copperspinerecords.com