Johnny Cash - The Ballad of Boot Hill

[kingoma61]

Johnny Cash originally recorded "The Ballad of Boot Hill" in 1959 and released the song as part of a Columbia EP (Extended Play 45 featuring four songs). The song was included on the 1965 Columbia album Sings the Ballads of the True West. The song also appears on the 1992 Columbia compilation album The Essential Johnny Cash: 1955-1983.

[papashangofan]

Great voice on a great man with great tits.

[1fairportconvention]

@papashangofan great tits?

[age49]

Great song of a great time.

[zaaritha]

All J C done is geat songs!

[FriedEggsWithChips]

Song begins at 1:20

[SupremeParkitects]

Theoretically those men weren't killed but immortalised forever. Sure they felt different at the time but they are renowned throughout the world due t dying in that gun fight

[kingoma61]

The writer of "The Ballad of Boot Hill" is Carl Perkins, who also wrote the #1 hit "Daddy Sang Bass" for Johnny Cash in 1968, "So Wrong" for Patsy Cline in 1961, the #1 hit "Let Me Tell You About Love" for The Judds in 1989, "Silver and Gold" for Dolly Parton in 1991, "Restless" in 1968, and his own #1 million seller from 1956, "Blue Suede Shoes".

[treeperble]

i grew up in tombstone, never been back ; (. memories

[oddball2036]

I've never been to America, but I've never met an American I didnt like.

me to but i coudnt eat a whole one

[JohnnyMarsBar]

@oddball2036 mainly because most are HUGE

[SuperCatzmeow]

He is a Badass! and i love TombStone! its really cool

[Lieu3C4]

Giss yall wooden warner where dem smeelee olboots uniwaize.

[Trekkie46]

Haven't been to Tombstone since I was in middle school. When I go home to Tucson, I'll have to drive down there again.

[xxA13Xxs]

I have seen every one of those graves while sightseeing with family who lives in Arizona (I am originally from Vancouver) earlier this year, I remember all of those and the place looks just how it does now.

[meeshiskeysh]

what the fuck it will let me watch all the vids execept nine pound hammer. if i can watch the others whats its fukin beef with this one?

[demibaton24]

the boothill is in kennett

[renamon93]

Finally, some comments that are GOOD about Cash.

Last vid I seen, ALL the comments were saying how Cash was the WORST of all time.

[Buckthe3rd]

clanton had been talking big shit how him and his friends were going to kill doc holiday an the eyarp brothers. Then when push came to shove he started screaming like a butch. So yea he got what he deserved

[xXGatumadreXx]

jaja i love put this song while im playing Red dead redeption undead nigthmare

[glass12456]

cool thing is that i live in dodge (dodge ate boot hill)

[BroMotto]

in a book by virgil earp

s wife she said they were bank robbers and had masks and bags of bank gold

[bowhuntersp]

Johnny Cash could read the phone book and make it interesting!

[sk8brd4life]

song so good

[TrickiestCosimo]

bellissima

[Cjaz84]

Warning....Tombstone is a giant tourist trap.....just go to Bisbee way more fun! LOL

[imprettystoned]

I could listen to Johnny Cash narrate anything...Great song!...R.IP. Mr. Cash.

[Arbeedubya]

It was Ike Clanton who said he didn't want to fight and ran away after it started. Billy Clanton was apparently quite willing to do battle, since the majority of damage inflicted on the Earp party was inflicted by his gun. Supposedly, he shouted "God damn you, I've got to kill one of you before I die!" to the Earps and was still trying to cock his gun and saying something like "one more shot, please, one more shot" as he lay mortally wounded in the street.

[DAVIE1488]

wish I could of heard you live ...

[ljb389]

Starting listening to Cash in 1994 when I was in high school. He is the only musician I know of that a wide range of audiences, young and old listen to. He had the voice of God. Johnny Cash will always be a friend of mine. Miss ya and RIP my friend!

[tomato6999]

@ljb389 i was very young when i first heard jonny cash, this may sound a bit cheesy but he made me the person iam today.he showed me the right way and for that iam so humble and thankfull to him. god bless johnny cash.

[MissSusieQue1]

Been to Tombstone several times. if you've never been, you may want to check it out. The old west WAS rough & tough. Oh 2 have been a woman in THOSE days?OHhellNo! This video shows all the touristy spots but when u walk down the wooden sidewalks & actually feel some of the oldest bldgs. w/your fingertips.. To start a town literally in the middle of sage,cacti &dirt took lots of guts & a vision~the american spirit! If you can...ride the desert on 2 wheels, take Route 66 ,FANTASTIC! SQ1

[1880TimeTraveler]

Outstanding! Thank you.

[JojoDeBeauregard]

Merci beaucoup "Hammerofthegods32", j’adore Johnny Cash et l’Amérique et ta vidéo est fantastique. Encore merci.

Thank you very much "Hammerofthegods32", I love Johnny Cash and America and your video is fantastic. Thank you again.

[75freeman]

i've always loved this story and song and the video is magnificent, thanks for sharing it with us

[OldSkoolThrasher666]

awesome song, rad video....the old west was so cool...

[SLEEPYMAN83]

I love this song R.I.P. Johnny

[Licmycat]

Bitter sweet......farmer's grand-daughter.....

[microbusss]

well there are more that one Boot Hill Just that this one the most famous

[666Angelfuck]

johnny cash had made me the man that i am with his music wisdom thank you johnny rip.

[tomato6999]

@666Angelfuck me too friend

[Wankachocho]

cant believe I never heard this before ... especially with as big a fan of JC as I am

[SargeantShaw]

My god, thats the first time I've heard this song, and I love it.

[vdubdroptop]

Ballads of the true West was a great album all the way through.

One of Johnny Cash's many hidden treasures.That was 1965.

Got any more? Thanks for the post. You rock !!.

[TamarZucker]

Interesting Americana. Love photos used in video and Cash of course. 1882 is pretty recent really.

[vigy85]

seems suitable for Dr quinn medicine woman in which Jhonny has the role of Kid Cole!

[GeneralSirDouglasMcA]

I always wondered if this song pertained to Doc Holliday (from the movie Tombstone). Now I know! :D

[twodogshellbound]

Times have not changed much, crooked cops and law men back then and now.

[biblebeliever01]

this song is pretty amazing

[whitemanrunshim]

StueyLestrange, Clantons and Earps, good and bad, Esau and Jacob, you are right, always the same old story. I like this old myths - and truths

[larue1995]

I took a trip to Boot Hill just to see what the song was all about. My grandpa had the original album. Now that he's gone I have it. Great album!

[zgdcro]

this real wild west story!!

[ctvikings45]

them boys should have been shot, god bless Wyatt Earp

[StueyLestrange]

Sometimes the borders between good & bad become crossed. After reading more about this..they shouldent have been killed.

[yzotop111]

i thought mclowreys and clantons are those bad guys and doc holliday was helping earps with them , am i wrong?

[borntokill30]

1981??

[mictin4600]

@borntokill30 1881

[jwdundon]

GREAT VIDEO.... AND great introduction, more PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!!

[jacoff1973]

Good song, Johnny Cash, the best singer that ever lived. R.I.P. Johnny from Grove city, Ohio.

[davedavito]

@jacoff1973 maybe not best singer but the best mics of songwrither/ singer

[MrClydekewl]

@jacoff1973 grove street? u betta not enter ballas territory

[TheRebelYell73]

@MrClydekewl Im not sure what you mean about ballas Territory, But are they Johnny Cash Fans? Then they are cool. Im not from Grove St. but from Grove City Ohio. Hes the best singer of all time! later

[soupbean35]

there is two trucker ballads that johnny sang that i know about one sailer on the concrete sea and there aint no easy run

[uberbadnoob6699666]

i was there! man it is awsome!!!!

[DanielAvelan]

the first song of jonny cash I heard is the music on the initial credits of Dawn of the dead.

'...theres a men,to say who's the free and whos' the blame...'

[sqidoo]

does enyone know a song that sounds close to this one

[iloveclassics50]

well describe it....

[MrNik1001]

While yer helpin this feller, anyone want to tell me where to find a trucker ballad that ISNT Convoy? Or something like it?

[RavenWarrior86]

@MrNik1001 Phantom 109 is a good eery truck driver song

[slb928]

I have never heard Johnny sing that song before. I love it! Great video!

[IExposeMormonism]

I first saw Tombstone in Jan 1963. The roads were still dirt. There was a shotgun in the window of a store. It made a 10gauge look small. Must have been and 8 gauge. The barrels were maybe 14 inches long. It was gone in 1987. The roads were paved. sniff

[rickhorror]

doc holiday... typical cop..a sign of things to come.... too bad the west isnt wild anymore, now everyone is a UNION slave... wish I could of been here before the west was won... must of been an incredible country... it makes me sad to think about what weve lost as a country and how it will probably never return to its glory

[norb1937]

You sound like a Johnny Reb. Civil wars been over a long time ago.

[ashjon10]

My great great grandpa was and his 2 brothers. they were all under 18. i"m very proud of my " johnny reb " heritage..

[rickhorror]

pay attention to whats goin on now. no different, and no its not about race.. race aside its the same politics the union wants everyone to conform with a new way of life ,taxes , laws etc with a "new liberal" way of thinking and its really just lies and deceit with even greater constraints on freedom and liberty in the good old usa.. im not buying into it .. Obama is a liar the republicans are full of shit as well, only solution is for states to withdraw from the so called UNION South=metaphor

[kingrico1921]

Way down yonder in the land of cotton, things have changed but they aint been forgotten.

[sadiengo]

Amazing Im going to vist tombstone one of these days.

[zaaritha]

Such a great song!

[sameoldfitup2008]

Police accused of being fearful in tackling culprits over citys growing toll of racial assaults THE number of white victims of racist attacks in a Yorkshire city has risen 30 per cent in a year to more than 300 and police have been accused of being afraid to take on the culprits

[hank3rox]

I'm from Leeds, whereabouts are you talking about? That's pretty shocking

[Tnuggz420]

thats sad if they are afraid. id show them true fear.

[oakfox1981]

ya ya.. and its like a piece of trach blows around in the wind- and u try to catch it and it just keeps blowing away-

[Iraqveterankill4real]

A true american epic and its true!! I love my countrys history.the good and the bad it shapes us as a whole and bc of heros like cash it is immortal

[Johi2410]

This is a goosebumps song! I like it a lot! And this part of the history somehow fascinates me. That was "only" about 130 years ago!

[AbeCross44]

GREAT song penned by Carl Perkins.....LOVE IT!!!!

Thank You Hammer!!!!

[wsoxs13]

Cash can write & sing music w/meaning

[Parazy2]

I'm not american but the song is great...

[JakeViciousPB]

It's not about "being american", it's all about "Think about my words, make your own thoughts!"

That's what Johnny wanted, I guess.

[pontyfaxjr]

I've never been to America, but I've never met an American I didnt like.

[sirlugi]

absolutly!

[ashjon10]

thank you for those kind words

[lanesytacct]

hahaha finally someone who isn't so preocupied being mean to americans ;) ty for kind words if its for the natives or for the overall country i respect the natives more than myself....

[DarkWingTDR]

@pontyfaxjr you have the south and the north and they have both difrent belives and opinion but i have to admit i like the south more

[andyamaca11]

great song great video.thanks all the way form limerick ireland ..... boot hill part 2

[bahoss]

I love America

[JoeCamelCigg]

We all do. Semper fi!

[demokratieistunsinn]

No, I don't think so. For me personally, I think of the USA as such a low thing, that it is not worth the authentic feeling of hate.

[JoeCamelCigg]

keep that to urself, we dont want to know ur opinion. And if u dont love the US u dont love anyting worth loving.

[Hammerofthegods32]

what makes you feel that way? I am personally not an overly patriotic person, but I don't bash the US or any country for that matter since I have the ability to see that everything under the sun has both positive and negative aspects, but I'm curious.

[demokratieistunsinn]

It's a matter of fact, that through media and personal experiences in developing countries like the Philippines, the USA is a kind of red banner for me.

I don't want to creat the impression, that there is a country I like more, but if anybody declares the USA to a loved country I am able to set something against that.

I have to add that I think of government as a danger in any case.

But this is also based on personal eperiences and not on ideological ignorance.

[Hammerofthegods32]

Fair enough. It would be silly for one to think that everyone loves the US, especially when it is flaunted on the news the venomous hatred so many have for us.

[JoeCamelCigg]

Thats ur opinion, nobody  cares what u think.

[demokratieistunsinn]

Really ? I'm deeply hurt.

[JoeCamelCigg]

Haha ur hilarious, what a loser!

[orckiller91]

dude dont be an ass

[JoeCamelCigg]

Im not an ass, im just chilling here.

Take it EC

[beatbox77]

@Hammerofthegods32 it sickens me

[jackdoldseven]

@demokratieistunsinn See..see there is the problem...not in political, economical, national, or anything else people just love bombarding anywhere they can get their opinion in. But the problem with the internet today...is people using it to mask themselves so they are free to post their opinion in a myspace about me, facebook bulliten or for fucks sake even a Johnny Cash video on youtube.

[jackdoldseven]

@demokratieistunsinn No one cares what you hate or what you love, Politics and religion...It's all over the news we don't need you and your supreme opinions plastered like horrible, random, dating site banners in the comments box on any site that allows you to type something and post it. Sick of these pseudo revolutionist who get on the internet like a second-rate John Glenn because they can't make a godamn difference in real life and their life is nothing special.

[brolvoo]

@bahoss I Hate America, But they got some good people.

[stealyphil1925]

@brolvoo What defines a country but the people in it?

[djavapakleni666]

@bahoss ..I don't.....

[Manajah85]

I Love the song :)

[jtls8]

The song and slide show are great*****

Thank you johi2410 for sending

[tuktukskagal]

I watched this again;the footage in the video was

incredible;matched the narration and song perfectly.

Thank you so much for this video.

[johnnycashroadshow]

A fascinating, and sad, ballad. No surprise that it was brought to us by JC.

The video really brought the song to life.

Thanks.

JCRS

[bucknorrismusic]

I grew up in Bisbee, Arizona about 25 miles from Tombstone. Lot of memories there for sure.

[BrunetteLiana76]

I've been there a couple of times. Some people say it's haunted too.

[gerdenshed]

A great song and a great video my friend 5*s

[leeperryismerry]

this song would still be amazing with out the Slide Show but the Slide Show is informative!

[leeperryismerry]

great song RIP!

[tuktukskagal]

fabulous

[BROCOCK]

The Newspaper that John mentions..the Epitaph is wrong..it was the "cowboy" organ the Nugget that caused all the grief for the Earps..John Clum the Epitaph editor was a Earp supporter...

[zaaritha]

Great!!

[cashfan85]

great slide show!

[dexter851]

...great song...i love it;-)...

[hurchel]

This is great, I am related to the cash's and earps