Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue (Live at San Quentin, 1969)
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Lyrics:
My daddy left home when I was three
And he didn't leave much to ma and me
Just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.
Now, I don't blame him cause he run and hid
But the meanest thing that he ever did
Was before he left, he went and named me Sue.
Well, he must o' thought that is 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.
God bless Johnny Cash for putting a smile on the faces of so many regardless of their situation. He judged no one and gave countless people so much joy.
Als ik Johnny Cash zie ..zie ik mijn vader maar die kon niet zo mooi zingen R.I.P ❤🇳🇱 Onvergetelijk Jaar 2022.🙏
U know it brother
You would want to give joy to the people who come to murder your children and wife? I can't understand your logic. Please explain it.
@@ddoeser5830❤
And if I ever have a son, I think im gonna name him...
Bill or George, any damn thing but Sue, I still hate that name!
RIP Johnny Cash, you're missed everyday.
Johnny - the original troll. It's gotta be one of the greatest 3 minute set ups.
To Johnny, thanks, from Bill
played this song about 200 times in a Pub and it was always a success.
Mysterion hell yeah he is 😭
Depending on the reception from the crowd he'd either finish the song that way or say "i'm gonna name him... after you" and it completely changes the tone of the song.
I met Johnny in 75, never a more approachable man on this earth. Like so many of us, Johnny stumbled in his younger years but he never fell. Never a man with the solid values in life have I ever met. He fell in love with June Carter but she wouldn't have him intill he quit the drugs. He quit cold turkey, married June and the rest was history . If that doesn't show us all the power of love my friends, NOTHING WILL!!. God bless you Johnny , for giving us all something all the gold in the world can't buy, your music, your values , and for making us all better people just by you being on this earth. Rest in peace my friend, both you and June.
I was 13 when this song came out. It was played dozens of times a day on the pop radio stations.
I attended a summer camp with two brothers who happened to be named Bill and George. They were teased for being the sons of Sue.
That's an honourable title
I heard it at the time (I was 9) and 'sonofabitch' was bleeped out on radio - I used to wonder what the bleeped-out word was!
Oooooh, the irony!!! Great story.
🤣
This comment made my day🤣🤣
best story ever within a song
Editing 8 years later.... I was hammered drunk and a severe Alcoholic 🤣🤣 I'm much better now and this is not THE best.. but definitely a great one! Much love to everyone 🤙
John Gillenwalters deathbed by relient k is good too
John Gillenwalters this or "Big Iron" by Marty Robbins
It’s really really good but absolutely not the best
I heard Shel Silverstein wrote the song. Same dude who wrote that "the giving tree" story
@@mbelma6329 Wow, that song is surprisingly very beautiful. Thank you for that.
Easily his best performance of this song, you can tell he's having so much fun all the way through.
It's also his first performance of it, lol! He'd never performed it before. He's actually reading the lyrics on stage, you can see him looking down sometimes
I like how Johnny actually gave a fuck about the people that the population didn't care about like the prisoners. Truly a good man
That's the main thing Country was supposed to be about, I believe, the best country are the songs like Ol' Red, or many Johnny Cash songs
Johnny cash has a criminal background as well, i guess he knew how prisoners felt...
Amen
@@pontushaggstrom6261 Not really. He was arrested a few times for drugs but he was never in jail. He was a terrible addict for many years but his run ins with the law were very few. My mom saw him perform, "in various states of sobriety". She said when he was sober, his singing gave her goosebumps. When he was high/drunk, June had to come out and help him sing the songs.
Always upheld American values. Shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.
Johnny was an entertainer and storyteller for every one, regardless of situation. We need more people like him
That fact that he was just reading this song and it had never been played before is even more amazing when you watch him and his band try and work it out. They just went in there with the lyrics, not really even intending to play it.
One of the most epic performances in history
I just...Johnny Cash was so real, he understood. Look at the faces of the prisoners, in a den of hell these men are smiling. Johnny's music is causing that, his powerful voice and guitar playing. He causes joy where there should be sadness. Johnny Cash, so very powerful.
I believe this is footage of Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison, I could very well be wrong though.
Was it not San quentin? :/ confused...
It might have been San Quentin in not entirely sure but im pretty sure he's in a prison.
Meh... Whatever prison he's in doesn't really matter though... But I totally agree with your first comment :)
The album was "Folsom Prison Blues" but he played at a lot of prisons around the country. I think of how many of those prisoners probably didn't have a father around to guide them into adulthood. What a great song on so many levels.
I love the cheers when any hint of violence comes up in the song.
Classic right?! :D
Thank you Mr. Cash for being so amazing
Time is my
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Who is having a moment to listening to all you'r childhood songs?
Amazing performance by a brilliant Saint of a man. It's touching to see all those forlorn prisoners light up like innocent children. What a beautiful soul that was Johnny Cash.
I'm sure all those poor prisoners are just nice guys, who never did anything wrong. Grow Up
Not a phone in sight... Just a group of people present in the moment, enjoying the performance.
This song played on my granddad's funeral. Not the typical funeral song, I know, but he loved it! English isn't my native language so I didnt understand a word of it back then, but now I'm older and I have to admit the old man had a great sense of humor! It reminds me that you shouldn't take life too serious, and I love him for teaching me that.
aww so wholesome may he rest in peace ❤️
It was written by shel silverstein not johnny cash.
that was back when country music wasn't "drunk on a plane" or "drivin my tractor"
Drivin my tractor, gonna go home and kiss my sister, then I'm gonna hop in my truck with my dog and crack some brews
+jump oricakle drunk on a plane is a good song that people can relate too and drivin my tractor is not a country song
+Joshua Kulina If you like that song Johnny Cash would be embarrassed to have you as a fan
+Joshua Kulina If you like that song Johnny Cash would be embarrassed to have you as a fan
+Kristian Ellingsen how do you known johnny would be embarrassed
Johnny truly understood what it means to be an outcast. Those men will never forget Sue's story.
I didn't know until a few years ago that the wonderful poet Shel Silverstein (A Light in the Attic, Where the Sidewalk Ends) wrote the poem which became this song. : )
I didn't know that either! Thank you :)
He also wrote the Giving Tree
he also wrote the father of a boy named sue which is disgusting and despicable
@@nataliafranco8348 Bad bot. Don't be a negative Natalia.
Pretty sure he wrote “25 minutes to go”
Also sang by Johnny Cash
Featured kn “Live from Folsom prison”
He was truly a gem. Rest in peace Johnny. Praying you're in eternal bliss with June.
"Kickin' and a-gougin' in the mud and the blood and the beer." Classic.
poetry in motion
Hello Peter 👋👋 How are you doing and how's the weather over there ?
@@nelsonsiebold8447 I'm good. It's hot.
@@peterfarrell66 ohh I see. It's partly cloudy here today. And cool hope you're Safe there Friend ?
Where are you from ?
Johnny Cash playing live for the prisoners whom the rest of the world chose to forget... God Bless Johnny whom through all his trials of life, preached the love of Christ to his dying day!!! :'-)
he did?
@@lastnamefirstname5295 the men he is playing for in this video are all prisoners in jail.
@@TakeUpYourCross 1:02 Who knew Judge Reinhold did time?
I love Jesus and believe prisoners will be used powerfully in the Last Days Great Harvest of souls
Johnny got a friend in my little hometown here in Sweden. 47 years ago Johnny visited his friend who asked him to play in the prison we got --- it wasn´t just a suprise but also a great success so they put it on an album ua-cam.com/video/zNBCtnXrgN8/v-deo.html
It's 2023. A boy named Sue takes on a whole new meaning now!
Not for long. The gender bending madness is entering the awareness of the average Tom, Dick and Harry; Sally, Milly and Susan, and they can see it's wrong on the face of it.
or a Souix named Boy
😂
Or a binary named Sue.
@@Eleventhearlofmarsor a karen
God this is a legend beyond legend. You will never see anything like Johnny cash again. He had an aura about him. That made him seem otherworldly. Watching this then hearing music now a days... it's a damn shame how far the music industry has fallen
Hello Robert 👋👋 How are you doing and how's the weather over there ?
@@nelsonsiebold8447Quit flirting with Robert. Quit cat fishing
There's plenty that have replaced Cash.....ever heard of Justin Bieber??
Yep they don't let real people in anymore. You've got to be a narcissist willing to construct a fake persona.
@@AhPhoeyno way Jose
johnny cash was a very good, kind man; those prisoners know he doesn't look down on them, and they're grinning like children; very moving--
Hello Suzanne 👋👋 How are you doing and how's the weather over there ??
@@nelsonsiebold8447 rain
Anyone listening summer or 2024???🎉❤
You know it
@@chukbenis xxx
Yea I am listening to
Johnny was among the first music I heard as a child in the early 70s, met him as a kid in the early 80s after a show, and will listen to his music until my dying day. He was a humble man, a great man...as he signed his autograph for me, I told him I was trying to learn how to play guitar, but I only knew 2 chords so far, he said son, I got famous knowing 3 chords, you're almost there, learn 2 more and you'll be better than me, what a great man.
Yes 🎉
Johnny Cash knew my grandma and had a profound influence on my family!
She's a lucky lady..I love him so much 💖
Lots of dudes knew your grandma....
@@swizlestick 😂
Yep. 7/17/24: Love this song. Just heard it first a couple weeks ago. Now I know all the words.
Saw him perform this at Lincoln Drill Hall. One of his best performances. A boy named Rich xxx
I was there xxx😢
Playing for Northern California prisoners in 1969. Didn't matter if they liked country music or not, seeing Cash was awesome
hey bro hows life?
Cash was a special man, helluva story teller, a great man, a great musician and was always stretching boundaries of censorship in music.
Johnny Cash the true badass in the music industry brave enough to preform for people in jail
I’m doing an acoustic gig tomorrow for my godsons surprise 21st birthday and I’ve chosen this as part of the set. It’s not just a song it’s a musical story and great when everyone’s “havin themselves a brew” 👌
I love this man. He means everything I felt when I was crossing illegally border from Yugoslavia to AUSTRIA AND Germany.
At :10 you can see Carl cracking up. Nobody in the band had known about the song prior to the performance (all the music was improvised) so that's his genuine reaction to hearing the lyrics for the first time.
man I didnt know this was the story...so coool
Thanks for that golden nugget of info.The band do look surprised at the lyrics
@@MrChristyCree Shel Silverstein wrote it, and Cash heard him perform it
@@alexanderleeart Inspired by Author/Humorist Jean Shepherd (A Christmas Story) , friend of Shel Silverstein.
One of the reasons I like UA-cam...little stories like this. Thank you x
Daddy loves Johnny Cash's music & would play it for me when I was a teenager. I remember he told me Shel Silverstein wrote this song & Mr. Cash was reading the lyrics as he played. He said at the end of the song "Those people cheering are inmates at a jail." This song is a classic & hilarious, but what I love most about it is that Mr. Cash & his crew went & preformed for people who were serving time in prison. That's an incredibly kind thing of them to do.
Song always reminds me of my old man, he would get a good chuckle out of it everytime lol Still gets me a little choked up when I haven't heard it In a while.... Lost him in 2013 from a sudden heart attack. Miss ya Dad, thanks for gravel in my gut and the spit in my eye ❤️
There will never be another "Man in Black".
Sorry for your loss xx
♥️
I am a female, but my dad gave me a typically male name so when I would cry about not being named something popular or girly he used to make me listen to this song. 34 years later and I am SO grateful for my unique name, and so grateful that he taught me to appreciate good music.
I was a preschooler when I first heard this. My parents would meet up for lunch with me at a pub and the first time I heard it on a jukebox I fell for that song and constantly pestered my parents for money to play it over and over. I claimed my imaginery friend Mick liked it. I still love it now. Later on in life I found out who Johnny Cash was. My pre school instinct was good. Johnny Cash was a thoughtful man who fought for people that society left behind he was simply something spectacular and even to this day, my love of plain black clothing I could probably put down to knowing, badasses wear black. I'm a grandma now and I may accidentally on purpose break out the Johnny Cash and explain that it's not just Goths that wear black.
Finally an uncensored version of this song.
Looks like I’m going to have to rip it, since no manner of attaining this otherwise doesn’t ruin it with ridiculous censorship.
When music was music & story telling of the highest level.
Happy birthday, Johnny.... we miss you.
Travis Linton Never be another like him - glad to have these videos.... I had no clue how many were recorded back in the day.
hows life bro?
This is not Denmark!!! This video has been recorded in San Quentin state prison.....
+MICHAŁ Apple Yes if they put live in San Quentin the hacks will take it down.
+Grunge Luggage Tours they will????
+MICHAŁ Apple This must be San Quentin because the audience are the same like on the video
No this is not Denmark.
Does Denmark even have prisons? I heard Scandanavian prisons are a joke compared to the ones here in the US, especially in here in California.
My father named me Sue after this song and I can't thank him enough for it.
Coolest gig. Ever. Period.
one of the best songs Johnny Cash ever did. Great story song and lots of fun to listen to.
hey bro hows life?
This is one of the greatest things ever recorded
This is my song that connects me to my father no matter the state of our relationship. He used to play this on the way to my basement games in his convertible mustang. Along with Paradise By The Dashboard Lights, these songs will always bring me back to those moments good or bad at least I was alive and me with my dad
Humor! Life lessons! Morality! Human frailty! God, country music was pretty damn good back in the day and got as much play as rock and roll when I was a kid.
Hi Susan hope you’re okay?
Hello Susan 👋👋How are you doing and how's the weather over there ?
"You ought to thank me before I die"
"For gravel in your guts and spit in the eye"
"Cuz I'm the sonavabitch that name you Sue"
I love that line
I love Johnny Cash! He's on my list of amazing country music artists along with Darius Rucker, Brett Young, Brad Paisley and Willie Nelson.
Takes some brilliance to come up with a song with a story like this and makes you tense just when ya hear him sing bout the fight damn oh man
Shel Silverstein wrote this song, the darn lyrical genius.
This was my father's favorite song. I'm really surprised the miserable bastard didn't name me Sue.
Though living in Germany, this man impressed me since I heard his songs in my dads stereo.
He sends out such positive signals from the US into the world.
He was the best embassador you guys ever had.
The great Johnny cash, R I P, thanks for the songs,
Easier to be A Boy Named Sue today then it was in 1969.
Only thing is you don’t know if it is a boy or a binary fookwit.
RIP johnny und danke für die großartige Musik ♥️ du wirst niemals vergessen 🙂
Such an amazing, one of a kind song: unconvential, no chorus, no bridge, just pure drive. Hats off to the writer: a Playboy magazine cartoonist.
M u
My dads favorite song lol
At 72 yrs old b4 he passed away he still listened to this song in his car.
Love Johnny Cash.
xxx
Niagara Canada here.
A great song written by the great Shel Silverstein. It's classic!
No one could ever fill his shoes. We miss you johnny. ❤
Please remaster the sound! a song this good, the world should hear CLEAR!
Love Johnny! Grew up listening to him! Loved his Bitter Tears album!
"This world is rough and if a man's gonna make it he's gotta be tough."
That line has helped me through a lot of hard times.
If only we had a song like "A Girl Named Joe"
Well, they had Billie Joe on "Petticoat Junction" back in the 60s... She looked way more pretty than tough.
This song was written by Shel Silverstien for Johnny Cash. If you like the lyrics, you should check out his books of poems. Also, yes, this was recorded at San Quentin prison.
I love a true American like Johnny Cash !,
Hello Jeanmarie 👋👋 How are you doing and how's the weather over there ?
Johnny Cash didn't redefine country music, he just done it a different way.
Hah. When I was a kid, my dad used to drive me to swimming practice of a Sunday morning. His car had one of those eight track things. Those giant 1960s tape cassette things. He had two tapes. Holst : The Planets Suite, and the best of Johnny Cash. I memorised the words to this aged like seven or something. Happy times man.
Johnny Cash is a legend and he's not only for older people. I've been listening to him since I first heard ring of fire when I was 9
What a legend Johnny Cash was, they definitely don't make 'em like this anymore
in this version, he skips over the second stanza:
Well, he must have thought it was quite a joke,
and it got lots of laughs from a lot of folks,
it seems I had to fight my whole life through.
Some gal would giggle and I'd get red
and some guy would laugh and I'd bust his head,
I tell you, life ain't easy for a boy named Sue.
Its weird because in the San Quentin Album the whole thing is there and the audio is from this performance so I think in the video they just cut it out. Not the poster of the video but the actual dvd where this is from
hmmm..weird
I appreciate your post. We could fill in that blank; so well written and perfectly meshed I could see how it could be cut for directness... Which this song has in spades. Authentic.
Lol
He probably didn't want to condone violence in response to someone laughing at you in prison.
Johnny Cash has a voice that makes you wanna be the last thing you listen to when ending it all ....and I mean that in the most positive way.
This song makes me think of my parents. They related to Johnny & his music.❤ no one like Johnny Cash ❤
"and I think about him now and then, every time I try, and every time I win" RIP Dads
I like songs that tell a story and this one is the best I ever heard. I think that's a real good story, it's serious and it's funny at the same time. Mr. Jonny Cash is as convincing as it gets. He's great - a personality the same level as Elvis in my opinion. He's become a legend.
my dad used to sing this when i was a kid. it was always one f my favorites.
I was exposed to Johnny Cash (and Ray Charles & Al Green) in the early 70s via my dads 8-track tapes which he would play non-stop in our family car back then, a Thunderbird. Hearing this song now in 2017 brings back some of my earliest memories of being a kid. Now I understand why dad played this music so much. It's great music!!
I don’t care what anyone says, Johnny Cash is one of the greatest country music stars ever, and maybe even the greatest musician of all time!
Who's saying different?
@@ylekiote99999 I don’t know, just wanted to say this.
Thank you Johnny and Shel
Here's a little known bit of trivia about Johnny Cash. Back in March of 1953, Johnny Cash was in the US Air Force and serving in a post that involved monitoring radio broadcasts from the Soviet Union, which had long been ruled by the notorious Stalin. On March 5, Radio Moscow first broadcast the news that Stalin had died and the first American, perhaps the first Westerner, who heard the news was none other than Johnny Cash. Naturally, he passed the news along and soon the whole world knew that Stalin was gone.
Just listened again and still love it, iconic, and timeless....miss you Johnny Cash for all your great and meaningful music!
Beautiful song. How are you?
This song is for you, my Father in Heaven... Thank you for naming me Johnny, too.
Growing up, we never listened to country music. But we loved this song.
Shel Silverstein orignally wrote the lyrics to this song and it was popularized by Johnny Cash ... Sweet ! talk about a power duo ! RIP to two LEGENDS !!!
i wish everyone who sings had a voice as great as his
This girl named Sue loves this song!
Yeah ... So do I ! Love the Man in Black.
Love me some Cash*
When you meet someone do you tell them, "My name is Sue, how do you do?"
***** Oh, everytime. If they aren't nice I add, "Now you're gonna DIE!" LOL!
A Lady Named Suzette Funny.
This song is a wonderful way to make a captivating story. Better than most feature length movies!
Fun fact everyone! Shel sivlerstein wrote this song. I grew up lovin johnny cash but never knew he wrote this. I always loved shel's books like the "where the sidewalk ends" . I grew up reading them. Its awesome.
Any on watching this during quarantine
Yes, but not because of quarantine
yes
Yes ,
i love Johnny cash !!!!!!! he's the best all the way GOD BLESS HIS SOUL !!!!!! LOVE YOU CASH !!!!!!!
This might be the most skillfully written songs of all time
one of them for sure. pound for pound its right up there
and it even teaches you a lesson. There should definitely be more songs like this.
Mom and I sang many Johnny Cash songs together around campfires and other places too. One of our favorite artists. 😊💕🎶🎶🎻
They say music tamed the savage beast, there was not one damn riot in that place towards that man. Respect
Great song!
Love the storytelling and songwriting!
Song is funny but also tragic, you can tell it touches the hearts of some of those men, who probably never had fathers but could relate to getting tough or die. Who knows, maybe a few of them left on parole, and had the opportunity to say, "My name is SUE, How Do You Do You Do!"
"A Boy Named Sue" Live at San Quinton Prison.", 1969, Johnny Cash.
Johnny Cash is a different breed. I consider myself a very compassionate, empathetic liberal but he takes it to a new level. What he did for these men is unbelievable. Props to San Quentin too for allowing this. This would never fly in 2023.
Some amazing singing here... this isnt just a playful song, this is real. What a man ... Johnny Cash ....
Johnny cash was for the underdogs and. He could pull them up with the song he came from nothing and made something he knew it was do or die what a special mam Jesus was with him all the way love you Johnny rip