Childhood

[st_martin_a]

I heard this song the other day. Reminds me of my childhood. My Dad was a Glaswegian. He moved to London when he was 19, met my mum, she got pregnant, they married and then I was born. We lived in a council flat in London for two years. Then my Dad got a job in a town called Bedford 50 miles away. Everything we owned fitted into a car so when we moved house my Dad put everything into his mini and drove up. My Mum had to make her way there with me on the train. It was the first time we'd been to Bedford. We didn't have hardly any furniture but we had a record player and Dad always used to play this:
https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=WOHPuY88Ry4
It reminds me of being a kid more than any other song.

Edit: if the youtube doesn't work properly, type in 'johnny cash boy named sue'.

Comments

[october_rain]

Beautiful memory from childhood 💜 The johnny cash performance made me laugh. Nice song. :)

[st_martin_a]

Not sure how Johnny Cash pulls it off. It's country music, his guitar is often out of tune and yet he's got a certain magic. Good lyricist too.