《A Boy Named Sue(Live at sterker Prison， Sweden - October 1972)》歌词

[00:00:07] My daddy left home when I was three

[00:00:10] And he didn't leave much to Ma and me

[00:00:12] Just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze

[00:00:17] Now' I don't blame him cause he run and hid

[00:00:19] But the meanest thing that he ever did

[00:00:21] Was before he left' he went and named me 'Sue '

[00:00:27] Well' he must o' thought that is was quite a joke

[00:00:30] And it got a lot of laughs from a' lots of folk'

[00:00:32] It seems I had to fight my whole life through

[00:00:37] Some gal would giggle and I'd get red

[00:00:39] And some guy'd laugh and I'd bust his head'

[00:00:41] I tell ya' life ain't easy for a boy named 'Sue '

[00:00:48] Well' I grew up quick and I grew up mean'

[00:00:51] My fist got hard and my wits got keen'

[00:00:53] I'd roam from town to town to hide my shame

[00:00:58] But I made me a vow to the moon and stars

[00:01:00] That I'd search the honky-tonks and bars

[00:01:03] And kill that man that give me that awful name

[00:01:07] Well' it was Gatlinburg in mid-July

[00:01:09] And I just hit town and my throat was dry'

[00:01:12] I thought I'd stop and have myself a brew

[00:01:17] At an old saloon on a street of mud'

[00:01:19] There at a table' dealing stud'

[00:01:21] Sat the dirty' mangy dog that named me 'Sue '

[00:01:26] Well' I knew that snake was my own sweet dad

[00:01:28] From a worn-out picture that my mother'd had'

[00:01:31] And I knew that scar on his cheek and his evil eye

[00:01:35] He was big and bent and gray and old'

[00:01:38] And I looked at him and my blood ran cold

[00:01:40] And I said: "My name is 'Sue ' how do you do Now you gonna die "

[00:01:52] Well' I hit him hard right between the eyes

[00:01:54] And he went down but' to my surprise'

[00:01:57] Hee up with a knife and cut off a piece of my ear

[00:02:01] But I busted a chair right across his teeth

[00:02:03] And we crashed through the wall and into the street

[00:02:06] Kicking and a' gouging in the mud and the blood and the beer

[00:02:11] I tell ya' I've fought tougher men

[00:02:13] But I really can't remember when'

[00:02:15] He kicked like a mule and he bit like a crocodile

[00:02:20] I heard him laugh and then I heard him cuss'

[00:02:23] He went for his gun and I pulled mine first'

[00:02:25] He stood there lookin' at me and I saw him smile

[00:02:28] And he said: "Son' this world is rough

[00:02:32] And if a man's gonna make it' he's gotta be tough

[00:02:34] And I know I wouldn't be there to help ya along

[00:02:39] So I give ya that name and I said good-bye

[00:02:41] I knew you'd have to get tough or die

[00:02:43] And it's that name that helped to make you strong "

[00:02:49] He said: 'Now you just fought one hell of a fight

[00:02:52] And I know you hate me' and you got the right

[00:02:54] To kill me now' and I wouldn't blame you if you do

[00:02:59] But ya ought to thank me' before I die'

[00:03:01] For the gravel in ya guts and the spit in ya eye

[00:03:04] Cause I'm the son-of-a-bitch that named you 'Sue' '

[00:03:12] I got all choked up and I threw down my gun

[00:03:14] And I called him my pa' and he called me his son'

[00:03:17] And Ie away with a different point of view

[00:03:21] And I think about him' now and then'

[00:03:24] Every time I try and every time I win'

[00:03:27] And if I ever have a son' I think I'm gonna name him

[00:03:31] Bill or George Anything but sue I still hate that name