Farewell

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[dixie sass]

They are two of the nicest gentlemen I've met.

[Eagle9]

Dixie !

Go back and read/listen through the first 100 posts.

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JimRob, we're about the same age, similar backgrounds (wild youth ... military at a young age), and I'm certain you are very familiar with Johnny Cash's music. I hope you don't mind me using so much of FR's bandwidth with all these songs.

[dixie sass]

Thank you Luis. A great talent. It seems that we are losing a lot of very talented people lately.

[dixie sass]

Thank you Eagle

[dixie sass]

I will, dear friend.

[Jim Robinson]

Thank you very much. I love all the Johnny Cash recordings. The first time I ever heard Ring of Fire was back in the early 60's when I was a teenager and we saw a movie of the same name at a drive-in theator. A couple years later when I was a fireman apprentice on my first Destroyer, I got stuck with 90 days duty as the chiefs' mess cook. One of the chiefs had a Johnny Cash tape with a lot of these old songs and he played it over and over. To this day, every time I hear these songs I think of the good old days on that ship. Funny, they didn't seem like the good old days then.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Farewell to Johnny Cash and his cick-a-boom, cick-a-boom, foot tapping beat.

[Eagle9]

To this day, every time I hear these songs I think of the good old days on that ship. Funny, they didn't seem like the good old days then.

Every time I hear "Folsom Prison Blues", I'm transported back in time to another place -- 1971, Hill 270, Central Highlands, VN. I was basically an FO, for DivArty, but used a high-tech (for it's time) integrated instrument system, atop a tower, on an isolated firebase, to find targets visually, get coordinates and range, call in arty or air strikes, and adjust fire. Operational 24/7, regardless of weather conditions. Most evenings after chow, several of the infantry soldiers, whose one-man dug-in hootches were located around the base of the tower, would gather and sit on the sandbags atop those hootches and have a few beers while listening to cassette tapes on a small, battery powered player. I knew all of them and was always off duty, since I always had the after midnight shift in the tower. Johnny Cash's Greatest Hits tape was played every night, usually several times. An Infantry Master Sergeant, who was finishing his 30 year career with a third tour in VN (along with 3 years in WWII and 1 and a half years in Korea), would always appear out of nowhere, it seemed, whenever the Johnny Cash tape was played. He was well liked and highly respected by all, and would join us for a few beers -- regulations cast to the wind. He'd sing along with Johnny on 'Folsom Prison', his favorite. He had a deep, gravelly voice that could put fear into any man -- or inspire confidence and courage. To this day, when I hear Johnny Cash singing "I hear the a comin', it's rollin' aroun' the bend, and I ain't seen the sunshine since .... I don't know when ..............", I hear MSG Davis growlin' out his accompaniment, and a fine one it was.

[Conspiracy Guy]

thanks d s

[Conspiracy Guy]

Highwayman was a great song but there where 3 lesser singers on it also.

[Eagle9]

How I could possibly leave out the word train in those lyrics, I'll never know.

A good example of why I so rarely post replies.

[Eagle9]

Dec. 4, 1956: Carl Perkins (second from left) was cutting some records
at Sun Studio when Elvis dropped in. So did Cash (right). Jerry Lee Lewis
was already there. Elvis headed for the piano, and the jam session began.
(Gomemphis.com)

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In the fifties, that photo was called "The Million Dollar Quartet".

There's an online slideshow, 11 photos, at the following link. Once you're there on that website, look to the right of the story and see Related Links and the purple link 'Slideshow: Johnny Cash, 1932-2003'.

Man in black came out of Sun to sing for all - GoMemphis.com

[Eagle9]

The Essential Johnny Cash 2 CDs ($18.74) or 2 Cassettes ($16.49), 36 somgs.

All the songs I posted here, and many more, are in that great compilation.

[Conspiracy Guy]

BTTT fer songs.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I finally searched under Johnny Cash rather than Ring of Fire (lots of Pacific Rim Volcano stuff there) and found that I was right. Ring of Fire the song was released in 1963. Volcano Ring of Fire is much older.

[Eagle9]

Music Career At A Glance

September 13, 2003

NOTABLE SONGS

1955: Cry, Cry, Cry

1956: Folsom Prison Blues; I Walk the Line; Get Rhythm

1957: Next in Line; Home of the Blues; Give My Love to Rose

1958: Ballad of a Teenage Queen; Big River; Guess Things Happen That Way; The Ways of a Woman in Love

1959: Don't Take Your Guns to Town; I Got Stripes; Five Feet High and Rising

1961: Tennessee Flat-Top Box

1963: Ring of Fire

1964: Understand Your Man; The Ballad of Ira Hayes; It Ain't Me, Babe, with June Carter

1965: Orange Blossom Special

1967: Jackson, with June Carter; Long-Legged Guitar Pickin' Man, with June Carter

1968: Daddy Sang Bass

1969: A Boy Named Sue

1970: If I Were a Carpenter, with June Carter Cash; What is Truth; Sunday Morning Coming Down

1971: Man in Black

1972: A Thing Called Love; If I Had a Hammer, with June Carter

1974: Ragged Old Flag

1976: One Piece at a Time

1978: There Ain't No Good Chain Gang, with Waylon Jennings

1979: I Will Rock and Roll With You; (Ghost) Riders in the Sky

1985: Desperados Waiting for a Train; Highwayman, with Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson

1994: Delia's Gone

2002: Hurt

NOTABLE LYRICS

I Walk the Line

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine,/ I keep my eyes wide open all the time,/ I keep the ends out for the tie that binds,/Because you're mine, I walk the line.

Folsom Prison Blues

When I was just a baby, my mama told me, "Son,/ Always be a good boy; don't ever play with guns."/ But I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die./ When I hear that whistle blowin' I hang my head and cry.

I Still Miss Someone

At my door the leaves are falling/ A cold wild wind has come/ Sweethearts walk by together/ And I still miss someone./ I go out on a party./ And look for a little fun/ But I find a darkened corner/ because I still miss someone.

Ring of Fire

Love is a burning thing/ And it makes a fiery ring/ Bound by wild desire/ I fell into a ring of fire.

I fell into a burning ring of fire,/ I went down down down,/ and the flames went higher,/ and it burns, burns, burns,/ that ring of fire, that ring of fire.

A Boy Named Sue

My daddy left home when I was three/ And he didn't leave much to ma and me,/ Just this ol' guitar and an empty bottle of booze. / Now, I don't blame him 'cause he run and hid/ But the meanest thing that he ever did/ Was before he left, he went and named me "Sue."

Sunday Morning Coming Down

And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad,/ so I had one more, for dessert./ Then I fumbled in my closet through my clothes/ And found my cleanest dirty shirt. ... On a Sunday morning sidewalk/ I'm wishing Lord that I was stoned/ 'Cause there's something in a Sunday/ That makes a body feel alone./ And there's nothin' short of dyin'/ That's half as lonesome as the sound/ Of a sleepin' city sidewalk/ And Sunday mornin' comin' down.

 

[Conspiracy Guy]

You really did a good job of putting sound to the thread. Can I write you a custom poem? Freemail me some details, I work for free.

[Eagle9]

Flurry, I enjoyed your heartfelt, poetic tribute to Johnny Cash.

It was my pleasure to post links to some of his songs.

You have FReepmail.

Eagle

[Conspiracy Guy]

Thank you.

[MeekOneGOP]

Howdy ! I saw you're helping expose the Libs along with SonsOfLiberty2000 on that threat. Great !

I found this link on your profile page and thought I'd drop in to post this.

Rest in peace, Johnny Cash ...