Johnny Cash, “Frankie’s Man, Johnny”
Songs Named After Girls Week: F. Part V.
December 29, 2011
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December 16, 2011
"I first laid eyes on June Carter when I was eighteen, on a Dyess High School senior class trip to the Grand Ole Opry. I’d liked what I heard of her on the radio, and I really liked what I saw of her from the balcony at the Ryman Auditorium…the next time I saw her was six years later, again at the Opry but this time backstage, because by then I was a performer too. I walked over to her and came right out with it: “You and I are going to get married someday."
— Johnny Cash, Cash: The Autobiography
December 9, 2011
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Johnny Cash, “Delia’s Gone” (from American Recordings)
“Delia, oh Delia,
Delia all my life
If I hadn’t have shot poor Delia, I’d have had her for my wife”
(also: has to be in the pantheon of greatest opening lines to anything, ever.)
Songs Named After Girls Week: D. Part V.
December 1, 2011
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Johnny Cash & Nick Cave, “Cindy” (from Unearthed III: Redemption Songs)
“I wish I had a needle and thread, fine as I could sow/
I’d sow my Cindy to my side, and down the road I’d go”
Songs Named After Girls Week: C. Part IV.
November 23, 2011
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Johnny Cash, “Ballad of Barbara”
“And I rambled north and I rambled east/And I tested and I tasted
And a girl or two, took me round and round/But they always left me wasted.”
Songs Named After Girls Week: B. Part III.
September 30, 2011
April 10, 2011
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