8 Famous Songs That Have The Absolute Dumbest Sequels

7. Johnny Cash - "A Boy Named Sue"

"A Boy Named Sue" actually started off as a poem by famed children's author Shel Silverstein and later became Johnny Cash's biggest hit on the charts. It worked so well as a Cash song because it had that perfect mix of wryness and bite that folks had come to know the Man in Black for. The follow-up to this story, "The Father of a Boy Named Sue," however, isn't quite as lighthearted as the original tale.

Told from the father's perspective this time around, Silverstein describes the famous confrontation between Sue and his pop as an all-out brawl that ends with the two characters spitting blood and teeth.

In the end though, Sue is reassured that he was given that name to make him tough. There is one other, itty bitty change to the story, though. This time Sue is a transvestite. And when he reconciles with his father, he goes to live with him as something of a maid:

And on the nights that I can't score well I can't tell you anymoreSure is a joy to have a boy named Sue

Yeah...something of a...maid. I think we can all understand why Cash didn't rush back into the studio to record this.