A Girl Named Johnny Cash

A Girl Named Johnny Cash - Various Artists

Started out in Tennessee in 1944

When the doctor hollered it's a girl

My father hit the floor

Then he hit the bootle

And he signed his name

And he drove off in the nash

And when that sun came up again

He'd named me Johnny Cash

So at 22 I left my home

To Nashville I did go

Try to land me a little job

Had to earn myself some dough

I was workin' in a diner

In a hairnet servin' hash

And on my little apron

Was embroidered Johnny Cash

I couda had my pick of men

If I'd been named lucille

But when they saw my uniform

They just laughed and ate their meals

So I just drink my coffee black

In back behind the trash

And curse that lousy drunkard

Who had named me Johnny Cash

And I walked the streets of nashville

I was feelin' low and lost

Throught I'd go and change my name

No matter what it cost

I stood in line behind a man

Who turned and in a flash

He said my name is sue

And I say great I'm Johnny Cash

Now me and sue is married

With a little boy and girl

The boy was christened Jessica

And the girl was christened Earl

And when my sue comes home from work

It's up the stairs we dash

'Cause I love to hear my little Susie say

I love you Johnny Cash