Artist: Shel Silverstein
Author: Shel Silverstein
Label: Atlantic
Year: 1962
Country bolero.
Covers:
Johnny Cash [on Ballads Of The True West Vol 1, later also live At Folsom Prison; also cut Silverstein's A Boy Named Sue]
Will Tura [as Twintig Minuten Geduld]
Stijn Meuris [with Lady Lynn, Gregory Frateur and Tijl Delbeke]
The five minutes extra in Johnny Cash's version are used to spit in the face of any authority witnessing the execution.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)