Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash

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  • Johnny Cash Boy Named Sue Lyrics

           

    Well, my daddy left home when I was three
    and he didnt leave much to ma and me
    just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze
    now i dont blame him cause he ran and hid
    but the meanest thing that he ever did
    was before he left he went and named me Sue

    Well he must a' thought that it was quite a joke
    and it got a lot of laughs from a lots of folk
    it seems I had to fight my whole life through
    some gal would giggle and I'd get red
    and some guy'd laugh and I'd bust his head
    I tell ya life ain't easy for a boy named Sue

    Well i grew up quick and I grew up mean
    my fists got hard and my wits got keen
    I'd roam from town to town to hide my shame
    but I made me a vow to the moon and stars
    that I'd search the honky-tonks and bars
    and kill that man that give me that awful name

    Well it was Gatlinburg in mid July
    and I'd just hit town and my throat was dry
    I thought I'd stop and have myself a brew
    at an old saloon on a street of mud
    there at a table dealin' stud
    sat the dirty mangy dog that named me Sue

    Well I knew that snake was my own sweet dad
    from a worn out picture that my mother'd had
    and I knew that scar on his cheek and his evil eye
    he was big and bent and grey and old
    and I looked at him and my blood ran cold
    and I said 'My name is Sue how do you do
    now you're gonna die!'

    Yeah! that's what I told him

    Well I hit him hard right between the eyes
    and he went down but to my surprise
    he come up with a knife and cut off a piece of my ear
    but I busted a chair right across his teeth
    and we crashed through the wall and into the street
    kickin' and a'gougin' in the mud and the blood and the beer

    I tell ya I've fought tougher men
    but I really can't remember when
    he kicked like a mule and he bit like a crocodile
    I heard him laugh and then I heard him cuss
    and he went for his gun and I pulled mine first
    he stood there lookin' at me and I saw him smile


    And he said "Son this world is rough
    and if a man's gonna make it he's got to be tough
    and I know I wouldn't be there to help you along
    so I give you that name and I said goodbye
    I knew you'd have to get tough or die
    and it's that name that helped to make you strong"

    He said "Now you just fought one hell of a fight
    and I know you hate me and you got the right
    to kill me now, and I wouldn't blame you if you do
    but you oughtta thank me before I die
    for the gravel in your guts and the spit in your eye
    cause I'm the son of a bitch that named you Sue"

    Yeah! well what could I do?
    What COULD I do?

    I got all choked up and I threw down my gun
    and I called him my pa and he called me his son
    and I come away with a different point of veiw
    and I think about him now and then
    every time I try, and every time I win
    and if I ever have a son I think I am gonna name him
    Bill or George any damn thing but Sue

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