Johnny Cash Fans: What Is Your Favorite Johnny Cash Song?

[Dinger]

Poll question: Johnny Cash Fans: What Is Your Favorite Johnny Cash Song?

I just posted in GD about his house being burned to the ground:
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[fizzgig]

1. i'm partial to folsom prison blues

i think of it every time i hear the train come through town late at night (which is usually a few times a night)

[mvd]

2. Quite a few great ones

Right now, I guess "Walk The Line." It gets in my head a lot.

[Melynn]

3. My favorite is Delia's Gone

Pure American Gothic.

[Zomby Woof]

4. "Cocaine Blues"

From "Live at Folsom Prison" no less.

Followed by the same album's "Folsom Prison Blues", especially the chilling part where the prisoners cheer his "shot a man in Reno/just to watch him die" line.

[Chan790]

6. That's mine as well. n/m

[Dinger]

11. Yes, That's It For Me Too!

There is a local band where I live that does a pretty damn good job of "Cocain Blues" too, and I really agree about the prisoners cheering his "shot a man in Reno/just to watch him die" line.

[Qanisqineq]

22. ditto for me too

followed closely by Ring of Fire

[Va Lefty]

5. "Sunday Morning Coming Down"

Man in Black is a close second

[Lilith Velkor]

7. When the Man Comes Around

[stuntcat]

9. oooo

yes :headbang:

[SPKrazy]

14. Yes

when the man comes around is an AWESOME song

that whole CD is just supreme

:hi:

[stuntcat]

8. Jackson, and Mercy Seat, and Hurt

songs he didn't write still count :D
I like too many of his old songs, it's hard to pick one.

[anti-everything]

10. One Piece at a Time

[enigmatic]

12. "I See A Darkness" and "Cry Cry Cry"

I think "I See A Darkness" was the best moment in Johnny Cash's late carrer w/ Rick Rubin; he does Will Oldham's song more than justice, and Will's harmony on the chorus is beautiful.

"Cry Cry Cry" is just hardcore, man. Johnny strutting, preening through the song w/ a snarl; it's punk 20 years before it's time..

[MedleyMisty]

13. Ballad of Ira Hayes

I listened to it in elementary school and really identified with Ira. My heritage is mostly Irish and English and I'm pretty white, but I do have Sioux and Cherokee ancestry and my mother is always talking up the Sioux connection (the Cherokee ancestry was just recently discovered) more than the others.

I do like Man in Black and Folsom Prison Blues and Ghost Riders in the Sky and all that, but yeah - first choice would be Ballad of Ira Hayes.

[gemdem]

15. Love 'em all, but especially

'Cry, Cry, Cry', 'Folsom Prison Blues', 'Guess Things Happen That Way', 'Ring of Fire', 'Jackson'...

Aw, hell, like I said, I love 'em all. Johnny Cash was The Man.

[Cobalt-60]

16. my fave involves stealing a cadillac from the factory-one piece at a time

I wish i could remember the title.

[anti-everything]

17. One Piece at a Time

My favorite too

[sarge43]

20. One Piece at a Time, Cobalt-60 and yes, that is a hoot.

Almost as funny as A Boy Named Sue.

[susanna]

18. My name is Susanna...

What could I do?! ;-)

On edit: I love all the listed songs, plus lots more...but in the end, I just had to choose. (Man in Black #2.)

[sarge43]

19. Big River

But I have no un-favorite. Like Ray Charles, the man wasn't capable of screwing up a song.

[mark414]

21. i'm going to go ahead and just pick the entire Live at Folsom album

never before and never again will we hear something like that