It happened one day that I’m driving my middle son Jamie to preschool when he breaks into song and with great gusto belts out the lines:
When I was just a baby,
my mama told me, “Son
Always be a good boy,
don’t ever play with guns”
But I shot a man in Reno
just to watch him die
While I appreciated his affection for the Man in Black, I had to ask Jamie not to sing that song in school because it might freak out the teachers.
To all the handwringers who complain about the evil in heavy metal and hip hop, where were you when Johnny Cash was making a hit of this song?
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