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Father Of A Boy Named Sue Lyrics


by Shel Silverstein
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(Okay now years ago I wrote a song called 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)

Yeah I lef' home when the kid was three and it sure felt good to be fancy free
Tho I knew it wasn't quite the fatherly thing to do
But that kid kept screamin' and throwin' up and pissin' in his pants til I had enough
So just for revenge I went and named him Sue
Yeah it was Gatlinberg in mid July I was gettin' drunk but gettin' by
Gettin' old and goin' from bad to worse
When thru the door with an awful scream comes the ugliest queen I've ever seen
He says my name is Sue how do you do then he hits me with his purse
Now this ain't the way he tells the tale but he scratched my face with his fingernails
And then he bit my thumb and kicked me with his high-heeled shoe
So I hit him in the nose and he started to cry and he threw some perfume in my eye
And it sure ain't easy fightin' with a boy named Sue

So I hit him in the head with a caned-back chair
And he screamed hey dad you mussed my hair
And he hit me in the navel and knocked out a piece of my lint
He was spittin' blood I was spittin' teeth
And we crashed through the wall and out into the street
A kickin and gougin' in the mud and the blood and the creme de menth

Then out of his garter he pulls a gun I'm about to get shot by my very own son
He's screamin' bout Sigmond Freud and lookin' grim uh
So I thought fast and I told him some stuff
How I named him Sue just to make him tough
And I guess he bought it 'cause now I'm livin' with him
Yeah he cooks and sews and cleans up the place he cuts my hair and shaves my face
And irons my shirts better than a daughter could do
And on the nights that I can't score well I can't tell you anymore
Sure is a joy to have a boy named Sue yeah a son is fun
But it's a joy to have a boy named Sue




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  1. (Freakin' At The) Freaker's Ball
  2. Alimoney
  3. All About You
  4. Better Not Ask Me
  5. Bigtime
  6. Boy Named Sue
  7. Bury Me In My Shades
  8. Changing Of The Seasons
  9. Cloudy Sky
  10. Comin' After Jinny
  11. Crouchin' On The Outside
  12. Dance To It
  13. Daylight Dreamer
  14. Diet Song
  15. Dirty Ol' Me
  16. Don't Give A Dose To The One You Love Most
  17. Drain My Brain
  18. Father Of A Boy Named Sue
  19. Floobie Doobie Doo
  20. Goodnight Little House Plant
  21. Grizzly Bear
  22. Handy Man
  23. Hoodoo Voodoo Lady
  24. I Can't Touch The Sun
  25. I Got Stoned And I Missed It
  26. I Once Knew A Woman
  27. I'm So Good That I Don't Have To Brag
  28. Kick It Again
  29. Lemme Be Somethin'
  30. Liberated Lady 1999
  31. Lookin' For Myself
  32. Masochistic Baby
  33. Modern Talk
  34. My Mind Keeps Movin'
  35. Never Bite A Married Woman On The Thigh
  36. Paranoid
  37. Pathetic Way Of Getting Over Me
  38. Peanut Butter Sandwich
  39. Polly In A Porny
  40. Rings Of Grass
  41. Sahra Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out
  42. Sahra Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take...
  43. Scum Of The Earth
  44. She's My Ever Lovin' Machine
  45. Show It At The Beach
  46. Someday's Here
  47. Someone Ate The Baby
  48. Stacy Brown Got Two
  49. Sure Hit Songwriter's Pen
  50. Testing The Bomb
  51. The Man Who Got No Sign
  52. The Mermaid
  53. The Smoke Off
  54. The Ugliest Man In Town
  55. Thumbsucker
  56. Time
  57. Workin' It Out
  58. Yowzah






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