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Johnny Cash → Shel Silverstein
Johnny Cash didn't write "A Boy Named Sue." Which songwriter did, and also had his own version on record before Cash's?Shel Silversteinlearned
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Shel Silverstein
A Boy Named Sue · 1969 · via Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash’s version · 1969
Cash made it the one everybody knows, but the man who wrote it had already put his own version on record, and hearing the author deliver his own punchline is its own kind of fun. Both came out in 1969, so the song spent a year in two very different hands.
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