The Highwaymen - A Boy Named Sue (American Outlaws: Live at Nassau Coliseum, 1990)
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- The Highwaymen performing "A Boy Named Sue'" from American Outlaws: Live at Nassau Coliseum, 1990
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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."
Well, I grew up quick and I grew up mean
My fist got hard and my wits got keen
I'd roam from town to town to hide my shame
But I made a vow to the moon and stars
That I'd search the honky-tonks and bars
And kill that man who gave me that awful name
Well, it was Gatlinburg in mid-July
And I 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, dealing 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 gray 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 going to die!!"
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
Kicking and a' gouging in the mud and the blood and the beer
I tell you, 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
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 gotta be tough
And I knew I wouldn't be there to help ya along
So I give ya that name and I said goodbye
I knew you'd have to get tough or die
And it's the 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 ya ought to thank me, before I die
For the gravel in ya guts and the spit in ya eye
Because I'm the son-of-a-bitch that named you Sue
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 came away with a different point of view
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'm gonna name him
Bill or George! Anything but Sue! I still hate that name!
#TheHighwaymen #ABoyNamedSue #AmericanOutlaws
Cash is alive. He'll never die. Immortal.
No one ever really dies.
He’ll always be around and around and around and around and around
Johnny is Having the ultimate party with Jesus. You can be there too. Jesus is the way.
No I think he died
You can't kill cash.
I love how Willie and Waylon just are having fun behind him
I exploded with laughter at 1:26 with that speedy turn when he started singing again. For some reason, i really see it as a joke from Johnny Cash being his silly self.
How CAN'T you have fun when John sings this song?
I would sell my sole to do that
The guys have 100% respect as they know they are in the presence of a legend!
@@larrygliege4131 CD
Now at 230
no teleprompter, no lip syncing, no digital tracks...just pure talent. irreplaceable and unforgettable.
For sure.
The man remembered every word when he was having beer and speed for breakfast, there's a reason why he doesn't need a teleprompter
Todavía en 2024, siguen siendo los mejores!!!
Probably the greatest concert to ever take place
Ryan 7498 1977 Hotel California with the Eagles is up there too.
@@tjnaples so true
queen at live aid
@King1666 It was queens best, same with Nirvanas Live at Paramount which was and is one of my favorite performances.
King1666 live aid is the best performance ever idgaf
Kris is always smiling in all these videos it's so great too see how happy he always was.
He still is happy
Kris was always too humble in the midst of the greats such as Johny Cash. What he didn’t realise is that we all saw Kris as equal to the ‘greats’. He is a raw, visceral and guttural singer. One of the greats.
@@jonathantaylor6125 --Waylon took charge and basically became the MC/comedian, in addition to performing. Kris did look somewhat in awe of the others, who were much bigger stars in terms of being country performers. [Kris was also an occasional movie star, as well as a great songwriter.] Cash seemed to be enjoying himself and was very friendly with Waylon and Kris.
For some reason, Willie seemed kind of aloof. He performed his parts, but he did not seem to be having fun with the whole Highwaymen concept.
@@highnrising Yea I get that Vibe from Willie. Maybe he smoked before the performance?
@@highnrising Yea I get that Vibe from Willie. Maybe he smoked before the performance?
This is what a song should, and always be, a short story.
This song was written by the legendary Shel Silverstein.
You mean “I’m a barbie girl in the barbie world” isn’t a real song?
@@Sean-me4fv It's a shitty song, but i wouldn't not consider it a song.
No, not every song should be a funny little story.
Anytime I hear Cash sing, his tone.... no matter what he sings, sends chills down my spine.
Trust me I feel it too
1:26 Johnny turns around to Waylon and Willie who are laughing and having the time of their life. Johnny gives em a look of “quieten it down”, and Waylon instantly apologises. Brilliant
"If I have a son I'm gonna name him..Waylon..or Willie..or Kris, or after you!"
Recent comment! Great, I'm watching these videos again too :)
Or John
*cough cough *
Any Damn thing but Sue.
@@TheDD5623 i still hate that name!
105 dislikes. All must be men named Sue.
Or their ALL DEFF!!!! DEFFO!😁
@@toriclark8616 it I I
Whoever dislikes the highwayman or johnny cash cant be called man or men...
I from morocco what is mean sue please ??
@@MoiMoi-br6ko female name
The only person who disliked doesn't know of the legend of johnny cash the true king of country in my opinion
OR there named sue
@Vibin thunder yeah your probably right about that to
1:26 this quick turn Johnny does here to look at Willie and Waylon and immediately goes back to singing always makes me laugh.
Such a treat watching Kris Kristopherson watching Johnny Cash. The love and respect was evident between them and Kris is so into it.
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I love the Highwaymen.. The respect among them was just admirable
@@kriskristofferson2831 nice to see you all together bus sadly some of your band are playing their music in heaven I grew up on Jonny cash and willie Nelson and your music and dolly Parton etc .my favourite song was Rhinestone cowboy
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@@jameswelsh20221ciao James! Come stai? 🙋♀️😊😍😘💘🌄🍀
AT 84 , Still enjoying the " AMERICAN outlaws" : Johnny, Kris, Willie and others !!!Bless you from France !!
....ALL of them Johnny, Willie, Waylon, Loretta ,Charlie Daniels, Merle, Hank etc....there will never be these kinds of legends again.
I just wish I was alive to see them
I had tickets to see Johnny in 1998 but that was the tour he cut short due to illness and, to my knowledge, he never went back on the road.
I got to see Possum (and saw everyone hooting and hollering for every part of the show ... except the three and a half minutes of "50,000 Names" when it was dead silent).
I saw Merle and watched his backup singer get a bigger ovation than any backup singer ever when she sang "I Want To Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart."
I happened to be hanging around in downtown Denver one evening when someone randomly handed a ticket to see Don Williams. I was so taken that I went to see him three more times on various tours.
Don Williams occasionally complained about the altitude. Possum did too. And then there was Dolly, who at *cough* years old, performed in an outdoor amphitheater for three hours and never took her foot off the gas.
Ain't nobody ever outdo Johnny Cash! King of Country forever!
You know it's special when even the musicians are looking and smiling like an audience member.
I love how they are telling a story not just singing a song. you know that they are feeling the lyrics in their soul. that doesn't happen anymore. 4 great men 4 great story tellers 4 great men.
You said it 😎
Cash for me is by far the greatest storyteller there has ever been.
It does still happen, just not in anything you'd be hearing on the radio.
At 3:15 when he starts naming his stage mates for the boys name always makes me smile
I was a stagehand at alot of his shows and he always put on a great concert , Johnny Cash and June Carter will always be legends and dearly missed .
❤️
You lucky dog!
If they sang 20 songs in this concert, 21 of them would be amazing!!! These men are a gift to humanity. So nice to see Kris smiling all the way and Willie & Waylon enjoying the song, while also holding up a few chords to play along... And when it ends; simply love the way how Kris places the acoustic guitar back and picks up the electric one, apparently getting ready for the next amazing piece. They all have so much of respect for each other as fellow musicians. So, so, so, beautiful! And I truly wish Johnny & Waylon were with us... RIP.
I'll say it again. There is NO DOUBT ABOUT THE HIGHWAY MEN !!! Today's country singers should emulate our past that brought them to their star stage. Grand Ole Opry only makes the "ageless songs and stars" that will forever be known!!!
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Probably the best song ever...... for people that get it, for those that don't...... Listen again ❤️🙌
As a Johnny cash fan, as simple of a song as it is it gives me so much pride to be able to sing this and play it even if it only is a three chord boom-chick-a rhythm song to play.
I was 22 when this concert happened. I really wish that I appreciated these guys then like I do now.
The way Waylon and Willie go into form when Johnny looks at him is a gem
The talent on that stage is phenomenal.
the greatest comedy song of all time. Cash was the best at everything
Love this consert
*concert
This might be top 10 greatest concerts ever
Nobody ever could and most likely ever will be able to command a stage like Johnny, Rest In Peace skin
32 years ago wow. I want a time machine dangit. Legends.
I always liked Johnny Cash yet was never really into his music. I liked him, that was it. When the radio announced that he had died I got a tremendous shock and was paralyzed for three days. I never knew that he meant so much to me until that moment.
These lyrics are American stories set to music what a bunch of legends. Thank God we have these documented forever to enjoy. Thank you Mr. Cash ……
Amen and Amen
When the live show is just as good as the studio recordings 😍
I'd argue even better
The greatest combination of entertainers in modern times
It may be super strange for you but I am an Iranian with a great admiration fot johnny cash and playlists full of his works
Nothing strange about that.
It'd be strange if you were an Iranian boy named Sue. Like this, you're just another guy.
how Cash gets the mic en the look in his eyes, put his guitar on his back its something else. What a man rest in peace.
I’ve heard Johnny sing this song numerous times…. This in my opinion is the best that’s out there…. Cracking performance.
Very good song 😊😊😊
One of the best story/songs I've ever heard.
“Kicked like a mule and bit like a crocodile” great lyrics!
Never even knew about this group. What a stacked group.
You know you are a legend when you have to make your own beep
Never tire off This, sounds like what oldest son went through. Wore glasses, till other options. Came along .Love this .🤣🤣🙏😍🌅🇺🇸🇩🇰
Still listening to this in
"20"
1:33 i love this part of this song
How do you do
When the musicians at the stage enjoy more than the audience!
Johnny Cash is Americana through and through. I don’t think it gets more American than him. ❤️
Wow, reckon it doesn't get much better than this.
"My name is Sue, how do you do"!!! Enjoyed this for years. The smile on Kris's face sure proved he was enjoying that gig!
Band (Memphis Boys):
Gene Chrisman (drums)
Mike Leech (bass)
Reggie Young (lead guitar)
Bobby Wood (keyboards)
Bobby Emmons (keyboards)
Additional band members:
Mickey Raphael (harmonica) (long-time Willie Nelson's Family Band member)
J.R. Cobb (rhythm guitar and background vocals)
Robby Turner (pedal steel guitar)
Also, props to Chips Moman who brought all these great musicians together. And, I want to give props to Willie Nelson and his guitar playing that makes a lot of these songs better.
Yes.
Danke.
My name an't Sue - yet Im picking up wat ya putting down! Cos that song rings bells of my life too!
Timeless ❤️❤️❤️💕💕💕
probablement un des plus importants musiciens.
Love these guys
100 likes and no dislikes. How every Johnny song should be.
369 and still going strong
Then there need to be 2 guys that want to be busted up!
Indeed. But 2 guys named Sue disliked it...
bad taste buds
This song was written by the legendary Shel Silverstein.
Johnny was a showman he has a presence on stage. I love reactions of the other three just loving cash work. As a lad I saw Tina Turner live. Hearing her you knew even if all power went out. She could still crank out the songs. That's when you know some people are born with talent. Cash has those sparkling eyes. This concert is epic. But would the fulson prison been better. Let's just appreciate both.
It's crazy how many people come back to this everyday. This song is Legendary ❤💖
Favorite cash song il be here forever
God bless these men when men were realy men my hats off to you :)
I'm going to invent a time machine, just to go back and experience this in person. Wish me luck!
Did it work?
I still love this song 😍 R.I.P.
Hello how are you doing today.?
Love Johnny’s voice here. Absolutely love it.
Very Very good
Hi Jean how are you?
An American legend through and through
I remember listening to this on the car radio traveling through the night with my dad.
This is just the best song I've ever heard makes me so happy 😊
LEGENDS on that stage!
AAAAA!!!!
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What a man
Well Erin he is the best have you listen to Don Williams?
Yes Johnny!! Been a fan since I was 14 and I'm 32 now, me and my sons will always listen to you❤
What a story. Awesome ❤
I absolutely love how Johnny slings his guitar back and grabs the mic, he went back in time.
Reggie Young is enjoying every minute of this...you can tell he admires Johnny Cash!!!
I was born in England but my soul is pure American outlaw !!
Well, my daddy left home when I was three
Didn't leave very much to my mom and me
Except 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 my daddy ever did
Was before he left, he went and named me Sue
Well, he must've thought that it was quite a joke
And I got a lot of laughs from a lots of folk
Seems I had to fight my whole life through.
Some gal would giggle and I'd turn red
And some guy'd laugh and I'd bust his head
I tell you, life ain't easy for a boy named Sue.
But I grew up quick and I grew up mean
My fist got hard and my wits got keen
Roam from town to town to hide my shame.
But I made me a vow to the moon and stars
I'd search the honky tonks and bars
And kill that man that gave me that awful name.
Well, it was Gatlinburg in mid-July
And I just hit town and my throat was dry
Thought I'd stop and have myself a brew.
At an old saloon on a street of mud
There at a table, dealing 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 had
Knew that scar on his cheek and his evil eye.
He was big and bent and gray 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 gonna die",
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.
Then I busted a chair right across his teeth
And we crashed through the walls and into the street
Kicking and a-gouging in the mud and the blood and the beer.
Well, I tell you, I've fought tougher men
But I really can't remember when
He kicked like a mule and he bit like a crocodile.
Well, I heard him laugh and then I heard him cuss
And he reached for his gun but 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 gotta be tough
I knew I wouldn't be there to help you along.
So I give you that name, and I said goodbye
And I knew you'd have to get tough or die
It's that name that helped to make you strong".
He said, "Now you just fought one helluva 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 ought to thank me, before I die
For the gravel in ya gut and the spit in ya eye
'Cause I'm the son of a bitch that named you Sue"
What could I do?
Well, I got all choked up and I threw down my gun
I called him my pa, and he called me his son
Come away with a different point of view.
And I think about him, now and then
Every time I try and every time I win,
and if I ever have a boy, I'll name him,
Waylon, or Willie, or Kris, or after you, anything but Sue.
4 legends 1 stage
I can only think of the Highwaymen and the Rat Pack where a group of guys who were all celebrities in their own right could have fun and cut up and ad-lib on stage and still knock the audiences socks off.
Then you need to look at The Traveling Wilbury's!
Icons all. We shall never pass this way again.
This was wonderful to watch. Really great. Still laughing with 😂 joy.
Anybody else out there have the 45 of this? Sang it until my Dad threatened me to stop. He bought me some Dolly songs!!!
Lol
Non conosco l'inglese...ma il suono delle chitarre mi ha colpito...😊😊😍😍😇😇🎶🎸🎸🎸🎸🎶💘💓💓💓
And back they come for the encore: 4 more songs, from each one, one. I love how Johnny shouts with all his anger: How do you do, my name is Sue. Even when the song contains a lot of violence.
If you're listening to this in 2022 you have great taste in music 🎶 👌
I’ve always LOVED Johnny and I just discovered the song “ when the man comes around”. O.M.G. LISTEN to it,it is truly AMAZING. It makes me go cold and cry. Listen to the words long written down ,when the man comes around.
The lyrics are SO awesome. God bless Johnny Cash.
four of the true country icons, that there ever was johnny cash i truly adore
1 of the greatest country stars of all time. I saw him in concert in 1970. He was fantastic. Country will never be the same again. WAYLON, WILLIE, JOHNNY, AND KRIS. THE BEST EVER.❤
Ahh to be at that concert. Wow. Legends!!!
Man would have loved to see these four gentlemen sing and play with guitars
I can never hear this song enough.
It was written by Shel Silverstein
@@larrylinn8589 and....
@@user-dt5ro When great singer songwriters cover other songwriter’s songs, it should be noted.
Folks, ye got 2 o' the top 3 Country Sangers o' all time on that stage. Ye got Waylon (#3) and Johnny (#2), and if'n ole Hank Sr. wuz there ye'd have all 3.
Best “boy named sue”!!!
Géniaux ces mecs ....🤧💖💖💖
❤always pick me up when I feel Blue. ❤❤❤❤
This is a song of beauty! Outlaws for life!
They are having the time of their lives. Absolutely the best!!!
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I named my son kris best thing I ever did😊❤