Boy Named Sue-Audio Idols

[ti:Boy Named Sue] [ar:Audio Idols] [al:Tribute to Johnny Cash] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Boy Named Sue - Audio Idols (音频偶像) [00:05.13]Well my daddy left home when I was three [00:07.44]And he didn't leave much to ma and me [00:10.12]Just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze [00:13.38] [00:14.71]Now I don't blame him 'cause he run and hid [00:17.11]But the meanest thing that he ever did [00:19.46]Was before he left he went and named me Sue [00:23.15] [00:25.55]Well he must o' thought that is quite a joke [00:28.24]And it got a lot of laughs from a' lots of folk [00:30.42]It seems I had to fight my whole life through [00:33.82] [00:34.98]Some gal would giggle and I'd get red [00:37.63]And some guy'd laugh and I'd bust his head [00:39.94]I tell ya life ain't easy for a boy named Sue [00:43.06] [00:47.17]Well I grew up quick and I grew up mean [00:49.64]My fist got hard and my wits got keen [00:52.28]I'd roam from town to town to hide my shame [00:55.31] [00:56.72]But I made me a vow to the moon and stars [00:59.23]That I'd search the honky tonks and bars [01:01.24] [01:01.81]And kill that man who gave me that awful name [01:04.74] [01:06.26]Well it was Gatlinburg in mid July [01:08.45]And I just hit town and my throat was dry [01:10.94]I thought I'd stop and have myself a brew [01:14.25] [01:16.03]At an old saloon on a street of mud [01:18.59]There at a table dealing stud [01:21.02]Sat the dirty mangy dog that named me Sue [01:24.21] [01:25.63]Well I knew that snake was my own sweet dad [01:28.14]From a worn out picture that my mother had [01:30.50]And I knew that scar on his cheek and his evil eye [01:34.52] [01:35.16]He was big and bent and gray and old [01:37.77]And I looked at him and my blood ran cold [01:40.06]And I said "My name is Sue How do you do [01:43.74] [01:44.68]Now you're gonna die" [01:45.99] [01:51.97]Well I hit him hard right between the eyes [01:54.95]And he went down but to my surprise [01:57.00]He come up with a knife and cut off a piece of my ear [02:00.12] [02:01.72]But I busted a chair right across his teeth [02:04.06]And we crashed through the wall and into the street [02:06.52]Kicking and a' gouging in the mud and the blood and the beer [02:09.84] [02:11.29]I tell ya I've fought tougher men [02:13.50]But I really can't remember when [02:16.14]He kicked like a mule and he bit like a crocodile [02:19.21] [02:20.84]I heard him laugh and then I heard him curse [02:23.27]He went for his gun and I pulled mine first [02:25.85]He stood there lookin' at me and I saw him smile [02:29.16]And he said "Son this world is rough [02:32.60]And if a man's gonna make it he's gotta be tough [02:35.64]And I knew I wouldn't be there to help you along [02:38.36] [02:39.88]So I give you that name and I said goodbye [02:42.54]I knew you'd have to get tough or die [02:45.30]And it's the name that helped to make you strong" [02:47.63] [02:50.82]He said "Now you just fought one hell of a fight [02:53.31]And I know you hate me and you got the right [02:55.94]To kill me now and I wouldn't blame you if you do [02:58.70] [03:00.54]But you ought to thank me before I die [03:03.11]For the gravel in ya guts and the spit in ya eye [03:05.59]'Cause I'm the son-of-a-b**ch that named you Sue [03:09.06]What could I do Yeah what could I do [03:11.65]I got all choked up and I threw down my gun [03:13.90]And I called him my pa and he called me his son [03:16.29]And I came away with a different point of view [03:19.01] [03:21.02]And I think about him now and then [03:23.27]Every time I try and every time I win [03:25.97]And if I ever have a son I think I'm gonna name him [03:29.58] [03:30.73]Bill or George anything but Sue I still hate that name