A Boy Named Sue-Johnny Cash

[ti:A Boy Named Sue(Live)] [ar:Johnny Cash] [al:At Osteraker Prison] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]A Boy Named Sue (一个叫苏的男孩) - Johnny Cash (约翰尼·卡什) [00:15.05]My daddy left home when I was three [00:17.04]And he didn't leave much to Ma and me [00:19.29]Just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze [00:22.10] [00:23.53]Now I don't blame him cause he run and hid [00:25.53]But the meanest thing that he ever did [00:27.61]Was before he left he went and named me 'Sue ' [00:30.73] [00:31.67]Well he must o' thought that is was quite a joke [00:33.80]And it got a lot of laughs from a' lots of folk [00:36.17]It seems I had to fight my whole life through [00:39.12] [00:40.12]Some gal would giggle and I'd get red [00:42.55]And some guy'd laugh and I'd bust his head [00:44.48]I tell ya life ain't easy for a boy named 'Sue ' [00:47.24] [00:48.48]Well I grew up quick and I grew up mean [00:50.73]My fist got hard and my wits got keen [00:52.78]I'd roam from town to town to hide my shame [00:56.35] [00:57.09]But I made me a vow to the moon and stars [00:59.34]That I'd search the honky-tonks and bars [01:01.90]And kill that man that give me that awful name [01:04.08] [01:05.14]Well it was Gatlinburg in mid-July [01:07.89]And I just hit town and my throat was dry [01:10.45]I thought I'd stop and have myself a brew [01:13.07] [01:14.19]At an old saloon on a street of mud [01:16.70]There at a table dealing stud [01:18.72]Sat the dirty mangy dog that named me 'Sue ' [01:21.40] [01:22.83]Well I knew that snake was my own sweet dad [01:25.14]From a worn-out picture that my mother'd had [01:27.45]And I knew that scar on his cheek and his evil eye [01:30.82] [01:31.63]He was big and bent and gray and old [01:33.75]And I looked at him and my blood ran cold [01:35.94]And I said: "My name is 'Sue ' how do you do Now you gonna die " [01:43.60] [01:46.16]Well I hit him hard right between the eyes [01:48.55]And he went down but to my surprise [01:50.75]Hee up with a knife and cut off a piece of my ear [01:54.01] [01:54.97]But I busted a chair right across his teeth [01:56.79]And we crashed through the wall and into the street [01:59.41]Kicking and a' gouging in the mud and the blood and the beer [02:02.17] [02:03.41]I tell ya I've fought tougher men [02:05.86]But I really can't remember when [02:08.00]He kicked like a mule and he bit like a crocodile [02:10.88] [02:12.06]I heard him laugh and then I heard him cuss [02:14.24]He went for his gun and I pulled mine first [02:16.74]He stood there lookin' at me and I saw him smile [02:19.36] [02:19.98]And he said: "Son this world is rough [02:21.79]And if a man's gonna make it he's gotta be tough [02:24.30]And I know I wouldn't be there to help ya along [02:27.03] [02:28.66]So I give ya that name and I said good-bye [02:30.53]I knew you'd have to get tough or die [02:33.02]And it's that name that helped to make you strong " [02:36.66]He said: 'Now you just fought one hell of a fight [02:39.36]And I know you hate me and you got the right [02:41.74]To kill me now and I wouldn't blame you if you do [02:44.43] [02:46.05]But ya ought to thank me before I die [02:48.06]For the gravel in ya guts and the spit in ya eye [02:50.38]Cause I'm the son-of-a-b**ch that named you 'Sue' ' [02:52.89] [02:54.03]What could i do [02:55.23] [02:56.48]I got all choked up and I threw down my gun [02:59.05]And I called him my pa and he called me his son [03:01.69]And Ie away with a different point of view [03:04.07] [03:05.62]And I think about him now and then [03:07.77]Every time I try and every time I win [03:10.11]And if I ever have a boy I think I'm gonna name him [03:13.98]Johnny Cash