History Funny / JohnnyCash

* "The One On The Right Is On The Left" is a cautionary ballad about how performers should leave their politics out of their music. The song describes a quartet whose members are mostly of widely diverging politics, leading the band to dissolve in an on-stage brawl. [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Except for the One In The Back]], whose politics never come up, and ends up getting drafted by the end of the song.

* Actually, considering Cash's reputation of recording so many somber songs during his career, he also had a very large repertoire of humorous songs, ranging from gallows humor like "25 Minutes to Go" to ironic songs like "The Man Who Couldn't Cry" which often had audiences in stitches when they realize the song actually pokes fun at many of the trope associated with sad ballads. In 1967, he even released an entire album of comedy songs, ''Everybody Loves a Nut''.

** In performances with the Highwaymen, he altered it to "...and if I ever have a son, I think I'm gonna name him... [[Creator/WaylonJennings Waylon]] or [[Creator/WillieNelson Willie]] or [[Creator/KrisKristofferson Kris]] or... ''after you!'' Any damn thing but Sue! I still hate that name!"

--> "...and if I ever have a son, I think I'm gonna name him... [[SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion Bill! Or George! Any damn thing but Sue! I still hate that name!]]"

* His tale of assembling a "[[TheAllegedCar custom]]" automobile in "One Piece at a Time". A worker steals pieces of a Cadillac every day for years on end... but doesn't account for the changes in model over the years. When he finally puts it all together, he winds up with a horrifying Frankencar that's some twenty-five different models at once, but somehow ''runs''.

* His tale of assembling a "[[TheAllegedCar custom]]" automobile in "One Piece at a Time". A worker steals pieces of a Cadillac every day for years on end... but doesn't account for the changes in model over the years. When he finally puts it all together, he winds up with a horrifying FrankenCar that's some twenty-five different models at once, but somehow ''runs''.

* His tale of assembling a "[[TheAllegedCar custom]]" automobile in "One Piece at a Time".

* His tale of assembling a "custom" automobile in "One Piece at a Time".

-->And you'll go to the Starkville City Jail

--> "And if I ever have a son, I think I'm gonna name him... Bill! Or George! Anything but Sue, I still hate that name!"

* "Chicken in Black", which is often claimed to have been recorded as a TakeThat to Creator/ColumbiaRecords, who had been treating him poorly for years (though Robert Hilburn's biography ''Johnny Cash: The Life'' reveals this isn't the cast at all: Columbia offered the song to Cash, who loved it and had no trouble recording it, only to lose interest when his colleagues disappoved). Ironically, it actually became a hit and raised his status with Columbia for a time. The best thing about it is that John's delivery is pretty straight-faced and serious. Also had a legendary tongue-in-cheek [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_uM87NTFW4 music video]], complete with chicken brain transplant!

* "Chicken in Black", recorded as a TakeThat to Creator/ColumbiaRecords, who had been treating him poorly for years. Ironically, it actually became a hit and raised his status with Columbia for a time. The best thing about it is that John's delivery is pretty straight-faced and serious. Also had a legendary tongue-in-cheek [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_uM87NTFW4 music video]], complete with chicken brain transplant!

--> "MY NAME IS SUE! HOW DO YOU DO!? ''NOW YOU GONNA DIE!''"

--> "MY NAME IS SUE! HOW DO YOU DO!? ''NOW YOU'RE GONNA DIE!''"
--> "And if I ever have a son, I think I'm gonna name him... Bill! Or George! Any damn thing but Sue, I still hate that name!"

* "Chicken in Black", recorded as a TakeThat to Columbia Records, who had been treating him poorly for years. Ironically, it actually became a hit and raised his status with Columbia for a time. The best thing about it is that John's delivery is pretty straight-faced and serious. Also had a legendary tongue-in-cheek [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_uM87NTFW4 music video]], complete with chicken brain transplant!

* His tale of assembling a "custom" automobile in "One Piece at a Time".

* "A Boy Named Sue."

* "Chicken in Black": "For two long years my head hurt bad, so a doctor checked me and he shook his head. He said, 'I'm sorry to tell you, but your body's outlived your brain'."

* "Chicken in Black": "For two long years my head hurt bad so a doctor checked me and he shook his head. He said I'm sorry to tell you, but your body's outlived your brain."