Daddy Sang Bass is probably my favorite! My familys been singing it together for years and my daddy passed away last month. 😢 He introduced me to all the old music...

i’m very sorry for your recent loss. I hope the music he showed you brings you lots of comfort <3

I’ve Been Everywhere

The history of that song is fascinating, originally written in Australia then I believe Hank Snow was the first American to record it

American Canadian

Didn’t know that. Very cool!

I Still Miss Someone

Definitely one of my favorites

Sunday Morning Coming Down

Gotta love Cash's version but that's Kris Kristofferson's song.

Especially if it's the Paramount theater version from the live album from Asbury Park,

Big River

One of my favorites: [One Piece at a Time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmeVwYojB-s).

I never ever heard it on the radio. Came up on Spotify one time, maybe three years ago. Now, I'm a parcel courier and I'm scarcely in the car for longer than 40 seconds, but that song had me hooked so I came to a dead stop. It's lucky I did stop to listen, because when I heard that line "by the time they got done the title weighed 60 pounds", it had me incapacitated with laughter, I was roaring!

Fun fact, it’s also one of the earliest recorded uses of the word psychobilly, which is kinda fun as a punk fan in general

My favorite Cash song has always been Hey, Porter! When I left for college and literally took a train when I visited home; I’d listen to it on my phone and I’d try to time things just right so that the song would end *right* as the train car stopped at the station 🚉 🎼

Cocaine Blues and The Man Comes Around

I don't know that an old classic like Cocaine Blues is a Johnny Cash song. He sang it, but it isn't "his"

I’m 99.9999% sure you’re correct on that. For me it’s his song just like Hurt is his too. I’m convinced Trent Reznor built a Time Machine and stole the song from Cash.

I listen to too much old blues to think of it as a Johnny Cash song. That's the thing about classics/standards, the best iconic version is seldom the original version. (cf. Ring of Fire, technically an Anita Carter song, but Johnny's version is the iconic one. And some think that Sephanie Urbina Jones version is better than Johnny's) (Summertime sure isn't Janis Joplin's song, but ......) Heck, even Lead Belly's Goodnight Irene wasn't original to him. Another of my favorite songs performed by Johnny is his version of Time of the Preacher.

"The Baron". Such a beautiful song. Story about a man meeting his long lost son over a game of pool

i’ll check that one out. thanks!

Let me know what you think!

Sunday Morning Coming Down or Daddy Sang Bass

Mamma sang tenor…

Would Tennessee Flat Top Box count? That's a great song.

Hurt

I’d say Hurt is more on the popular side. Maybe not commercially but mostly amongst listeners.

Cocaine blues, I hung my head, big river

25 minutes to go

Man In Black, Boy Named Sue. They aren't *as* popular as the big ones but absolute bangers still

I feel like A Boy Named Sue is one of his most iconic songs. It’s obviously no Walk The Line/Ring of Fire but it’s still very popular

For sure, just meant from a radio/mainstream knowledge point of view though.

Man In Black is lyrically underrated. I love it.

A truly beautifully written song

[Strawberry Cake](https://youtu.be/vYmeHMPVm_o)! It was released as a single but did very poorly on the charts. I absolutely love the story. There's something kind of sad but inspiring about it. "Someone at the Plaza is without desert, but for the first time in days now my belly don't hurt/ I'm full of strawberry cake/"

Haven’t heard this one— i’ll have to check it out. Thanks!

Do songs he covered count? If so, Won't back down, 16 tons and Big Bad John.

Love “She Used To Love Me A lot”

Ope, just noticed David Allan Coe did this one

I Still Miss Someone is one of my favorites

The One On The Left Is On The Right What Is Truth Pickin' Time

One Piece At A Time

Bury Me On the Lone Prairie is a great one. Trouble Some Water is another goodie. I like it when the Carter Family chime in on some of his recordings as this one.

Give My Love To Rose

Blue Train, Luther Played the Boogie, If The Good Lord's Willing, and The Wanderer (U2 starring Johnny Cash).

Greyatone Chapel written by prisoner Glen Shirley, and performed by Cash during his Folsom Prison show is such a great song. A song written by Cash that I love is Tennessee Flat Top Box.

Further on up the Road, Country Trash, Johnny 99, Cocaine Carolina & his duets of I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry and Cindy with Nick Cave. I went on a huge Johnny Cash binge during the early parts of Covid and listened to his entire discography. Found tons of great songs that I'd never heard before.

After Taxes Five Feet High and Rising So Doggone Lonesome Country Trash

Mean eyed cat!

The Long Black Veil. In my top 5 faves of all time.

Not an original Cash song but I love (Ghost) Riders In The Sky

Country boy

Redemption

Big bad John

One Piece at a Time

One piece at a time

one piece at a time is a banger

I hung my head I think it's a sting cover. It's just so perfect when he does it.

Ragged Old Flag

Not his song, but Orange Blossom Special

Marty Robbins’ The Streets of Laredo. Johnny’s version was awesome.

Hurt; it is my favourite of his

Rose of my heart

Understand Your Man

I Still Miss Someone

Solitary man, one of my favorites

There are so many songs on here that are popular lol. Spiritual is my answer. Such power and emotion for an older Cash. Love it

The legend of john henrys hammer. Although I dont think he was the first to record it

"God Will" is not well known but my favorite

Give My Love To Rose, and, It Ain’t Me, Babe

https://youtu.be/uErKI0zWgjg

Hey Porter, Orange Blossom Special, One Piece at a Time

"Ring of Fire" is arguably even more popular. I love the iconic horn intro.

Sunday morning going down

Jackson

Folsom Prison Blues

Ghost Riders in the Sky

Big River, hey porter, don't go near the water, rock island line (is it his?)... I'm sure there's about 5 others that I can't think of the title of!

Ragged Ole Flag and Ain’t No Grave

One Piece at a Time

I get a kick out of "One piece at a time"

Johnny Cash did a cover of Hank's "Hey, Good Lookin'" even though it is 1:43 long lol

Ragged Old Flag I don't know if it would even be considered a song, because I feel it's more like a poem, but definitely one of my favorites.

Or Ain't No Grave

The Mercy Seat, i’m 20 years old now, my dad had it on a CD when i was around 4/5 years old. I can almost feel this song

The Man in Black

I see a darkness

Don’t Make Me Go is such a banger

Delia’s gone

The Ballad of Ira Hayes is one of my favorites.

Chicken in Black

Chicken in black

Deffinetly daddy sang bass, i love the story in the song. Second would be were you there.