# Johnny Cash Wake At Quasi's Place
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash-wake-at-quasis-place/202712
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 19, 2003, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash-wake-at-quasis-place/202712 "2003-09-19T23:58:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2003, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash-wake-at-quasis-place/202712/1 "2003-09-19T23:58:31Z")
This will be the first opportunity I will have had to devote an evening/night to listening/playing to Mr. Cash’s tunes one right after the other.
Got my little Takamine all tuned, and the CD player set to play all the tunes I know. The beer’s on ice and I’ve been practicing the words, so that I can get through them without choking up.
Y’all are heartily invited, of course, but if you can’t make it please post your favorite **Cash** tune in this thread, and it’ll be just like you’re here with me. 😃
One of the first songs I learned on guitar was _A Boy Named Sue_ and that’s the one I will lead off with. The first song I ever heard, however was _I Walk The Line_ and me and my German Opa used to drive my mom crazy by playing it over and over when we lived in Germany!
Wonder how many other Johnny Cash listening parties are going on tonight?
Q
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### Author:  [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2003, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash-wake-at-quasis-place/202712/2 "2003-09-20T00:01:35Z")
I walk the line. First song I’ve heard. Sentimental value. I had it in my head all day when he died. Me and some of my friends sung it afterschool, when we were hanging out, and we all got a little misty.
Johnny Cash can make teenagers misty. That says something. ☹
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### Author:  [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2003, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash-wake-at-quasis-place/202712/3 "2003-09-20T00:01:41Z")
Delia – I’ve been singing it ever since the news hit.
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### Author:  [@silly\_duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silly_duck)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2003, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash-wake-at-quasis-place/202712/4 "2003-09-20T00:11:47Z")
I’ve never really been into Cash until recently. Its so unfair that just as I’m starting to truly enjoy someone’s music they die. I really like ‘Hurt’ and ‘I Walk The Line’.
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### Author:  [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2003, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash-wake-at-quasis-place/202712/5 "2003-09-20T00:14:51Z")
**Duck** , there’s whole _world_ of Cash music for you to discover. I envy you the discovery of one of the most important voices/writers of our time! I remember when I first heard his voice. I was mesmerized, and he made me want to hang on to every word!
Quasi
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### Author:  [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2003, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash-wake-at-quasis-place/202712/6 "2003-09-20T00:16:23Z")
Just a couple of my favorites.
I’ve Been Everywhere
Give My Love To Rose
Hey Porter
Jackson
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### Author:  [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2003, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash-wake-at-quasis-place/202712/7 "2003-09-20T00:28:10Z")
And yeah, I _know_ we’ve had Johnny Cash threads before. To some of you _ad nauseam_, I expect. I appreciate y’all indulging me one more time, however.
I was okay till _Give My Love To Rose_ just now played. Man! I **hate** a cryin’ drunk, don’t y’all? 😃
Q
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### Author:  [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2003, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash-wake-at-quasis-place/202712/8 "2003-09-20T00:33:25Z")
BTW, I just realized I posted in Cafe Society. Maybe it’s better suited to MPSIMS? Won’t hurt my feelings if it’s moved.
Q
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### Author:  [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2003, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash-wake-at-quasis-place/202712/9 "2003-09-20T01:03:04Z")
Put on _One Piece at a Time_; it’ll keep you from getting weepy. 😉
Can’t go wrong with _Ring of Fire_, either.
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### Author:  [@Wumpus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wumpus)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2003, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash-wake-at-quasis-place/202712/10 "2003-09-20T01:09:16Z")
“Big River” - the raucous live version from San Quentin. The man was a punk ahead of his time!
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### Author:  [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2003, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash-wake-at-quasis-place/202712/11 "2003-09-20T01:11:25Z")
Thanks **chique**! 😉 There are many humorous songs that he did, aren’t there? One really early one I remember is called _The One On The Right (Is In The Middle)_. 😃
Also, I think he had a good relationship with Shel Silverstein, and who can forget the time Kris landed that damn helicopter on Johnny’s lawn and handed him _Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down_?
Right now, we got _Wanted Man_ playin’! 😉
Q
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### Author:  [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2003, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash-wake-at-quasis-place/202712/12 "2003-09-20T01:16:05Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by chique \*
> \*\*Can’t go wrong with _Ring of Fire_, either. \*\*
Hey! Do any of you “middle-aged” 😃 Dopers remember a movie from the 60’s called “Ring Of Fire”? I believe it was about a submarine involved in something “cold-warish”, maybe? I think they used Johnny’s song as the title track. Anybody?
Thanks
Q
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### Author:  [@moejuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moejuck)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash-wake-at-quasis-place/202712/13 "2003-09-20T01:19:59Z")
Quasi,
I remember discussing the greatness of Johnny awhile back in another thread with you. You were actually one of the first guys I thought of when I heard the news. I am still recovering. The day I heard, when I came home, I sat down and played every tune I could on my guitar while listening to his music. It was an extremely somber occasion.
I request “I see a Darkness”.
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### Author:  [@penny\_dreadful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penny_dreadful)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash-wake-at-quasis-place/202712/14 "2003-09-20T01:22:01Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Quasimodem \*
> \*\*I was okay till _Give My Love To Rose_ just now played. \*\*
It was “I Still Miss Someone” that did it for me.
Right now I’m listening to “The Beast in Me”.
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### Author:  [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2003, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash-wake-at-quasis-place/202712/15 "2003-09-20T01:35:13Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by moejuck \*
> \*\*I request “I see a Darkness”. \*\*
You say 'em I play 'em, **moejuck**. I don’t mind being y’all’s deejay tonight! Just wish we were actually on the air! 😃
Yours is right after _One Piece At A Time_!
(I’d be one of those guys who’d lock themselves in the control room and gets fired the next day!;))
_“Hey Oneeeeeeey!”_
😃
Q
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### Author:  [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2003, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash-wake-at-quasis-place/202712/16 "2003-09-20T01:47:54Z")
Ooh ooh ooh. . .just pulled out my own CDs.
_Don’t Take Your Guns to Town
Ragged Old Flag
Five Feet High and Rising_
And my personal favorite. . . .
_Dirty Old Egg Sucking Dog_.
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### Author:  [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2003, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash-wake-at-quasis-place/202712/17 "2003-09-20T01:57:15Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by chique \*
> \*\*And my personal favorite. . . .
> _Dirty Old Egg Sucking Dog_. \*\*
“I’m gonna stomp yo’ head in the ground!
If you don’t stay out of my henhouse,
You dirty old egg-suckin’ hound!”
Wonder what the ASPCA would think about **that** one today, hon?
😃
Q
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### Author:  [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2003, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash-wake-at-quasis-place/202712/18 "2003-09-20T02:31:35Z")
**Highway Patrolman** , (a Springsteen song) was somehow brought “closer to home” when Johnny made it his “own”.
“…Man turns his back on his family well he just ain’t no good.”
Q
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### Author:  [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2003, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash-wake-at-quasis-place/202712/19 "2003-09-20T02:45:15Z")
NOW you tell us about the wake! It’s too late to get there before you’re completely totaled.
How about another vote for Big River. Then play Ballad of a Teenage Queen, then There You Go, then Mean Eyed Cat, then Next In Line, then…
Yeah, I’ve been playin’ Johnny all week.
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### Author:  [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2003, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-cash-wake-at-quasis-place/202712/20 "2003-09-20T02:52:35Z")
Hey **Johnny**! I’m still here, and not even a fifth (!) of the way totalled!
_I Got 25 Minutes To Go!_ (Plus all of your requests, thanks!)
😃
Good to see you again, my friend!
Q
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