Johnny Cash: Delia's Gone on "The Johnny Cash Show"
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Johnny performs this in the 'love song' slot of his TV show, August 30, 1969, decades before Rick Rubin resurrected it for his "comeback" record on Rubin's American Records label.
Here's our love song for tonight....LOL. ..the best ever!! We will never see the likes of Mr. Cash again
This is one of my all time favorites that he did! Johnny Cash a true legend gone but not forgotten! Love you Johnny
The Fabulous Johnny Cash... Love this song !!
The impressive Johnny Cash, he is an icon among incons. and this song is one of his masterpieces. he is probably the most outstanding person in music. no matter what genre he crossed all boundaries. I can't imagine a time when he will be forgotten. if that ever does happen it will be the saddest day ever in the world of music. and music in general will take a giant hit should that ever happen. I hope that his memory will stay with us throughout time. I have to say I'm pretty sure it will no doubt.
the patter of delias feet?...this is gangsta...
You really didn't know Beavis said: "Is this gangsta rap?" when he heard "...makes me want to grab my sub-mo-chine..."?
@@donaldsmith3926 you said it, Beavis...Bunghole
Johnny Cash was the man. didn't care what anyone thought and sang it like it was. awesome
Even with lerengitis the Man had the UTMOST talent down packed 🎙️ 😎🤙
The song is an old blues number, based on a real story. On Dec. 24, 1900, Moses Houston shot Delia Green in Savannah, GA. He served 13 years in prison.
Authorship for the ballad has been claimed by many, but it was first recorded by Blind Willie McTell in the 1920s, later by Blake Higgs, in the early 1960s by Johnny Cash, then by Bob Dylan.
Each version of the song has different lyrics, and Cash probably never performed it the same way twice.
Except the song is much older than the Delia Green murder.
'Delia's Gone' is a reworking of 'Another Rounder Gone' which pre-dates Delia's Gone by several years. 'Another Rounder Gone' is a regional variation of 'Frankie and Johnny', which was a reworking of 'Frankie and Charlie,' which dates back to the 1830s out of Burke County, NC and is based around the murder of Charlie Silver by his wife Frankie. (The 'Frankie' songs probably originate even further back to some Scots and Irish murder ballads of the 1600s.)
So what we have essentially is one basic song, with a narrative that can be made to fit whatever murder of the day that made an impression on the public of that time. For instance, compare the 1677 lyrics of Scottish murder ballad 'Percy Reed':
"Anest time I cot'r
I cot'r w'mae blide
'Was on' ta watch her suffer
'Ere with the secon cot she died"
(In modern English: "First time I cut her, I cut her with my blade/ I wanted to watch her suffer, but with the second cut she died.")
Delia's Gone (Johnny Cash version):
"First time I shot her
Shot her in the side
Hard to watch her suffer
But with the second shot she died"
As a kid I had this on a Johnny Cash album in the early 1970s and always thought it was such a haunting song. The other song I found unforgettable on the album was Suppertime, a religious song about a guy looking back on childhood. Who else could take those two extremes and give such authentic performances to each. In Dehlia, it was only years later that I realized how clever the line "one more round" was - is he talking about another verse or more bullets?
Parker Allen a round is also another word for bullet Parker Allen.
I think originally it pertained to alcohol, as the song pre-dates the creation of the modern cartridge. Back in the cap and ball days, you just called it a bullet. 'Round' came about quite a bit later in the parlance and was used to describe the entire cartridge (case, primer, powder, wad and bullet) as referring to a cartridge as a 'bullet' is ignorant. (It's a bit like calling your car a 'steering wheel'.)
Wow, "durn her mangy hide", not bad for a love song!
thank you abargle and mister cash. this is awesome :)
I love this song esp the way CASH does it...it must have a lot of lines of lyrics cause these are different from the ones on the CD.
Just luv Cash...
his smile is legend
I had never heard these lyrics. I am going to sing these extra verses for sure now.
Another great one by The one only Fabulous
Johnny Cash!!!......his buddy ....Rayrogers !!!
Coolest man ever and didn't even try!!
@Olav1462 Her and her mangy hide.
JOHNNY CASH TE BEST
Interesting. Different from the American Recordings version.
ive got news for you all 1962 on the sound of johnny cash!!!
I like the song, he didn't like Dillia that's it good tune
Every rock I bust is going to ring out Delia's name.
@vortexspiral
Incredible isn't it?
@ParkerAllen2 I'm guessin he's drinking to the memory of Delia? She's gone, let's have another...
It's not a round of drinks, but a round of bullets. He shot her and he's in prison.
Same
great lyrics, "the first time i shot her, i shot her in the side. it was hard to watch her suffer, but with the second shot she died."