The Father of a Boy Named Sue
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| “The Father Of A Boy Named Sue” | ||
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| Single by Shel Silverstein | ||
| Writer(s) | Shel Silverstein | |
"The Father of a Boy Named Sue" is a song by Shel Silverstein, written years after and as a sequel to his song "A Boy Named Sue", which had been popularized by Johnny Cash's 1969 performance at San Quentin Prison.
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In the opening of the song, Shel explains why he wrote it:
Okay...now years ago, I wrote a song named "A Boy Named Sue," and that was okay and everything, except then I started to think about it, and I thought, "It is unfair. I am looking at the whole thing from the poor kid's point of view." And as I get more older and more fatherly, I begin to look at things from an old man's point of view. So... I decided to give the old man equal time. Okay. Here we go.
Where "A Boy Named Sue" presents a story of a confident, physically dominant, and aggressive "Sue," the sequel, in the vein of tall tales, makes the boy's father tougher, meaner, and more masculine, and portrays Sue as a parody of weakness and femininity.
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