Father Of A Boy Named Sue Lyrics - Singles - Shel Silverstein

(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