Johnny & June

[Arcadia]

I only listened to one Johnny Cash song in a U2´s cd. Today I´ll see it.

[Arcadia]

nice end. Really.

[stilltrucking]

There was a soul food restaurant in San Antonio that I used to eat at. On their juke box there was only one song by a white man. Johnny Cash. I have not seen the movie but I would like too.

Of all his songs that I have listened to this one comes to mind.

Ira Hayes,
Ira Hayes

CHORUS:
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian
Nor the Marine that went to war

Gather round me people there's a story I would tell
About a brave young Indian you should remember well
From the land of the Pima Indian
A proud and noble band
Who farmed the Phoenix valley in Arizona land

Down the ditches for a thousand years
The water grew Ira's peoples' crops
'Till the white man stole the water rights
And the sparklin' water stopped

Now Ira's folks were hungry
And their land grew crops of weeds
When war came, Ira volunteered
And forgot the white man's greed

There they battled up Iwo Jima's hill,
Two hundred and fifty men
But only twenty-seven lived to walk back down again

And when the fight was over
And when Old Glory raised
Among the men who held it high

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Cut and Paste
As many of you know Peter LaFarge was a legendary folk singer in the early 1960s, from the Pima Nation and the author of the ultra-cool song "The Ballad Of Ira Hayes." "Ira Hayes" was covered by BOTH Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan. Here's a bit more info from a website featuring La Farge:

On Oct 27, 1964, Peter LaFarge died of a stroke (official version; rumors of him committing suicide persist):

In 1965 [sic] another Broadside songwriter "committed suicide." He was Peter La Farge, adopted son of Oliver La Farge, first winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature -- the book was "Laughing Boy," a sympathetic treatment of the Navajo Indians. The F.B.I. took an interest in Peter and began hounding him when he organized FAIR (Federation for American Indian Rights). Several months before he died, the F.B.I. raided his New York apartment at midnight. They scattered and tore up his papers; they put handcuffs on him and dragged him to Bellevue in his pajamas [sic]. They put pressure on Bellevue to declare him insane, but Bellevue could find nothing wrong and turned him loose.



Was the Indian, Ira Hayes

[Arcadia]

thanks for the story & lyrics!. I don´t remember the title of Jonnhy Cash´s song in the U2 cd. If I still have the cd, I´ll post the title.

[e_dog]

when one hears of Johnny Cash labelled a country singer and then listens to the crap that today pases for country music, one wonders what the hell went wrong with American culture? corporate-managed 'pop' is the death of folk music.

i remember when a grunge rock band covered his Rusty Cage several rears ago. quite interestin.

[Marksman45]

Johnny Cash did "Rusty Cage" originally? On what CD can I find that? I'd like to hear it.

Assuming that we're talking about the same "Rusty Cage"; recorded and released as a single in the early 90s by Soundgarden?

[stilltrucking]

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/s/soundgarden/128158.html

[firsty]

cash covered soundgarden's "rusty cage" not the other way round. he also covered NIN's "hurt," and a bunch of other stuff in the towards the end.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006 ... nce&n=5174

his connection with country music was the gospel aspect of it, and also of course his relationship with june, and also the cheesiness of being in vegas so much. his roots are more rockabilly and blues.

the movie was great, s'long as you approach it as it's meant to be approached, as the love story between cash and carter. "walk the line" of course is the perfect title for it, describing how cash walks the line for his girl. thats what the movie is about.

[e_dog]

firsty,

i stand corrected.

thanks for pointing out the error both here AND in the abortion thread to which it provided the opportunity for an irrelevant ad hominem attack -- the bread and butter of pro-lifer fanaticism.

[Doreen Peri]

i just saw it last night... i liked it a lot.

a love story, for sure.... but also learned some history i didn't know about. For instance, I didn't know he toured with all those people. I knew about June, of course, just not some of the others.

Both actors did a fine job and the cinematography was very well done as was the music.

A far better movie than the one that won best picture this year ('Crash')

[Artguy]

Ira Hayes...I remember the movie...Tony Curtis playin the part....kinda sad really...

[stilltrucking]

http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq87-3l.htm

Kind of sad is an understatement I think,

(I know you were speaking of the song not the battle)



Twenty nine thousand dead...
Twenty nine thousand Amercan and Japanese.

I do not think one Jap soildier survived. They would not surrender.

"Go tell it to a Marine."

Johhny also wrote

Ragged Old Flag

"So we raise her up every morning, take her
down every night.
We don't let her touch the ground and we fold
her up right.
On second thought, I do like to brag,
'Cause I'm mighty proud of the Ragged Old Flag."

http://www.lyricsdepot.com/johnny-cash/ ... -flag.html

Reminds me of Ann Charter's biography of Kerouac when he met the hippies. One of them wearing an american flag, jack takes it and folds it reverently.

morning maniac typing
pardon gibberish please.