Johnny Cash Lyrics

    ------ About the song The Long Black Veil performed by Johnny Cash

As to the act of self-sacrifice, who would die for a woman who would not even stand up and admit her sins to save you?

The songs main character IMO, was *_in love_ with his best friends wife, therefore, he says nothing to:
a)protect her reputation, and possibly her life
b) To see if she will speak out herself, to save him, thereby proving her love for him, and by not speaking out she proves (in his mind), that she doesn't love him. He doesn't want to live if she doesn't love him too. Of course later, as a ghost, he sees by her ritual that she really loves him, but he can only wait for her now, to die.

A haunting song, Pun intended.

    ------ About the song Forty Shades Of Green performed by Johnny Cash

40 Shades of Green was written by an Irish Priest Fr Patrick Coughlin. I met this priest on a visit to Lourdes in the 1970s and he told me that he wrote this song. I think this must have been prior to the time when Johnny Cash claimed to be the author as this priest didnt tell me that their was any dispute going on. I think the priest in question was a Holy Ghost Priest and may have been based in Blackrock College at that time. I would welcome any other inputs on this subject.

    ------ About the song Ring Of Fire performed by Johnny Cash

Actually!

Cash did NOT write this song. Originally June Carter wrote this song about her love she was experiencing for Cash. It was originally played by Anita Carter. After hearing Anita's version, Cash claimed he had a dream where he heard the song accompanied by "Mexican horns". He told Anita that if it doesn't catch on he was going to record it the way he felt it. So, when the song failed to become a major hit for Anita, Cash recorded it his own way, adding the mariachi-style horns.

So yes, the song does have some meaning behind it.

    ------ About the song Forty Shades Of Green performed by Johnny Cash

The discussion about Johnny Cash's authorship is basically did Johnny
try to mislead the Irish in Ireland about this song? If so why would he
mispronounce "Donaghadee" at shows? And in effect this actually caused
people in Ireland to think that he didn't write Forty Shades Of Green.

The problem is that people who are not travelling minstrel musos like
Johnny was, can have no workable perception themselves to review with
any accuracy or correctness the legitimacy of Johnny's authorship of
Forty Shades Of Green. Johnny did shows for the love of it and sincere communication with the audience or dance crowds. Not for maximising
his personal monetary profit. This is the way the critical reviewers
think and not an analysis of the way Johnny Cash himself would actually
think.

Johnny Cash was of Ulster Scots (in America, "Scotch-Irish") background
like Van Morrison and the itinerary "Cork to Larne" is telling because Cork
was the big port to America in the southwest of (the island of) Ireland,
and Larne was the Ulster Scots/Scotch-Irish ferry port to Scotland in the
northeast. So the only person who can be identified by the "generic"
emotional profile of this line is Johnny Cash. Of course it could all be just
a series of coincidences but even so the "coincidences" favour Johnny.

I played myself with other Northern Ireland musos from the Larne
hinterlands of County Antrim of the "Green Glens Of Antrim" (another
song in the spirituality of Forty Shades Of Green and also a tourist
catch-phrase) and this is a genuine North of Ireland travelling
minstrel muso "true story" tradition about Johnny Cash:

Johnny was doing a show one night in Ireland when Forty Shades
Of Green first became known and popular in the show circuits
and Johnny was very much loved all over. And so members of the
dancehall crowd appreciating the rapport and enjoyment they
were having with Johnny, put up a request somewhat timidly--
worrying that a request that they thought was a generic Irish
Country number might clash with Johnny's stage show program
from America--and it was Forty Shades Of Green. They politely
asked did he know it and would he mind doing it for them?

Johnny then announced a special request for an "Irish" number
and dedicated to the crowd and called "Forty Shades Of Green".
Pulled the place down as they say. And the crowd was so tearfully
and deliriously happy that "Johnny Cash" had actually done this
for them!

After the crowd's emotional reception to Johnny's performance
of the number, one of his road people asked him. "Why didn't you
tell them you wrote it?"

And Johnny said "I hadn't the heart."

And for what it is worth any Northern Ireland musos that I ever knew,
attributed Forty Shades Of Green To Johnny Cash.

    ------ About the song My Grandfathers Clock performed by Johnny Cash

This was one of my favorites as a child. I learned to play piano from an old hardbound music book, whick contained My Grandfather's Clock, as well as a lot of other great really old-timers! Would anyone know @ that book? Believe it was a set - more than one volume, and all music. Must have been published early 1900's

    ------ About the song The Long Black Veil performed by Johnny Cash

There is (was) a part where " She whispers my name 'neath a long black veil". I believe it was part of the chorus as opposed to another verse. But I've been listening to this type of song since before 1959, so maybe it was just anothers version.

    ------ About the song Ship Those Niggers Back performed by Johnny Cash

first off,everyone including rich white folks are being niggerized by consumption and greed! I had interacial grandparents,and trust me,my grandmother,whom was(native american moor) used the term nigger,and so did my grand father (caucasian) quite loosely.But, they only used the term when anybody did something seriousely reckless or irrespondsible. (Not) because they where a certain ethnic group.im moorish american and irish that explains my last name Orr-bey ie black irish. My boss and coworkers would freaking kill someone if they hurt me.(they are literally a bunch of racist white people.lol) yeah we call eachother spicks fags niggers honkeys kikes wetbacks wops and guinnies all the time! But we still love eachothr and will kick anybodies ass together!! Now thats real americans.

    ------ About the song Highwayman performed by Johnny Cash

DO YOU THINK THAT WILLIE NELSON AND CHERYL CROW EVERY HAD A THING FOR EACH OTHER ,THEY SURE DO ACT LIKE IT ,WILLIE BLUSHES REAL HARD AND CHERYL THROW HERSELF INTO HIS SINGING ,I THINK WILLIE IS ONE HELL OF A SINGER AND GUAITAR PLAYER,

    ------ About the song Ship Those Niggers Back performed by Johnny Cash

truth be told the american black man loves his white brother,you see there aint no where else to go.africa dont want you,you belong here with us.wish you would call yourself american,stedof african american,any fool knows bout where your originally from.but the old saying,you cant go back holds true for all of us.so lets shut the fuck up,and pull harder on this rope,we call america.no matter what color any of us is,we are all tied to it.

    ------ About the song Ship Those Niggers Back performed by Johnny Cash

Boy oh boy! Makes you wonder how any of you yankee retards worked out how to use your thumbs! You undoubtedly went to the moon!!! Ha!!! Not in a million years. I'm off for a cup of tea. Cheerio from the Motherland