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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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