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  • Artist Info: Well, my daddy left home when I was three,<br />
    and he didn't leave much to Ma and me,<br />
    just this old guitar and a bottle of booze.<br />
    Now I don't blame him because he run and hid,<br />
    but the meanest thing that he ever did was<br />
    before he left he went and named me Sue.<br />
    <br />
    Well, he must have thought it was quite a joke,<br />
    and it got lots of laughs from a lot of folks,<br />
    it seems I had to fight my whole life through.<br />
    Some gal would giggle and I'd get red<br />
    and some guy would laugh and I'd bust his head,<br />
    I tell you, life ain't easy for a boy named Sue.<br />
    <br />
    Well, I grew up quick and I grew up mean.<br />
    My fist got hard and my wits got keen.<br />
    Roamed from town to town to hide my shame,<br />
    but I made me a vow to the moon and the stars,<br />
    I'd search the honky tonks and bars and kill<br />
    that man that gave me that awful name.<br />
    <br />
    But it was Gatlinburg in mid July and I had<br />
    just hit town and my throat was dry.<br />
    I'd thought i'd stop and have myself a brew.<br />
    At an old saloon in a street of mud<br />
    and at a table dealing stud sat the dirty,<br />
    mangy dog that named me Sue.<br />
    <br />
    Well, I knew that snake was my own sweet dad<br />
    from a worn-out picture that my mother had<br />
    and I knew the scar on his cheek and his evil eye.<br />
    He was big and bent and gray and old<br />
    and I looked at him and my blood ran cold,<br />
    and I said, "My name is Sue. How do you do?<br />
    Now you're gonna die." Yeah, that's what I told him.<br />
    <br />
    Well, I hit him right between the eyes and he went down<br />
    but to my surprise he came up with a knife<br />
    and cut off a piece of my ear. But I busted a chair<br />
    right across his teeth. And we crashed through<br />
    the wall and into the street kicking and a-gouging<br />
    in the mud and the blood and the beer.<br />
    <br />
    I tell you I've fought tougher men but I really can't remember when.<br />
    He kicked like a mule and bit like a crocodile.<br />
    I heard him laughin' and then I heard him cussin',<br />
    he went for his gun and I pulled mine first.<br />
    He stood there looking at me and I saw him smile.<br />
    <br />
    And he said, "Son, this world is rough and if<br />
    a man's gonna make it, he's gotta be tough<br />
    and I knew I wouldn't be there to help you along.<br />
    So I gave you that name and I said 'Goodbye'.<br />
    I knew you'd have to get tough or die. And it's<br />
    that name that helped to make you strong."<br />
    <br />
    Yeah, he said, "Now you have just fought one<br />
    helluva fight, and I know you hate me and you've<br />
    got the right to kill me now and I wouldn't blame you<br />
    if you do. But you ought to thank me<br />
    before I die for the gravel in your guts and the spit<br />
    in your eye because I'm the guy that named you Sue."<br />
    Yeah, what could I do? What could I do?<br />
    <br />
    I got all choked up and I threw down my gun,<br />
    called him pa and he called me a son,<br />
    and I came away with a different point of view<br />
    and I think about him now and then.<br />
    Every time I tried, every time I win and if I<br />
    ever have a son I think I am gonna name him<br />
    Bill or George - anything but Sue.<br />
    <br />
    Source: A Boy Named Sue by Shel Silverstein, Famous Funny Poems http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/famous/poem/a-boy-named-sue-by-shel-silverstein#ixzz2mJEQ7bUY <br />
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