A Boy Named Sue (3:44)

This version of “A Boy Named Sue” was recorded in front of a live audience.

The track is a comical talking blues song written by Shel Silverstein and performed by country/blues singer Johnny Cash. It tells the first-person story of a boy named “Sue,” whose father, before walking out of his life, named him that in order to make him strong. Unbeknownst to the, now, man, he meets his father and a barroom brawl ensues.