"My Name is Sue. How Do You Do? Now You're Gonna DIE!"

I just made my own day! (With the help of the interweb, I guess)


I have to admit that I had never heard anything about “A Boy Named Sue” until spring of 2000. I was in college and was sitting on a couch in a common area reading a book when a friend of mine (who I also had a teensy crush on) came up and randomly just started reading to me the words to “A Boy Named Sue” off of a piece of paper. When he finished I said “What was that? A Shel Silverstein poem?” and he said “No, it’s Johnny Cash!”
Well, it sounds like it could have been a Shel Silverstein poem.
Guess what I just now found out, more than 12 years later? IT WAS WRITTEN BY SHEL SILVERSTEIN! I KNEW it!

I’ve told that story to a couple of people, and none of them ever said to me “well, it was written by Shel Silverstein.” Everyone just assumes it was Johnny Cash.

I am a huge fan of Mr. Silverstein. I love reading his books to Roman and I’ve read them all so many times myself. When you hear him sing, you can tell that he is a Johnny Cash fan, so I love that they seemed to have a mutual admiration for one another.

I’m so happy right now :)