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Thread #128344   Message #2873247
Posted By: Bettynh
27-Mar-10 - 10:48 AM
Thread Name: Folk Rap?
Subject: RE: Folk Rap?
How about "Big Bad John" written by Johnny Cash, sung by Jimmy Dean:

Every mornning at the mine, you could see him arrive.
He stood 6 foot 6, weighed 245.
Kind of broad at the shoulders, narrow at the hip.
And everybody knew you didn't give no lip to Big John


And "A Boy Named Sue" written by Shel Silverstein and sung by Johnny Cash:

My daddy left home when I was three
And he didn't leave much to ma and me
Just this old 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."