I will preface by saying I hate exploitive stories, the words used that can not be denied thus not criticized. To an extent, so is this I guess but I loved this man and his music. So if you don't like it, it's not your duty to keep your mouth shut. Johnny would have wanted it that way. ;)

I woke up to your song
this morning.
Why the hell they chose
"Ring of fire" f***in
eludes me.

I remember you when I was
a boy thinking you were
hokey and old and what the
hell did everyone see in you,
another Kentucky fried hick
with a bucket bottom guitar and
sorry ass voice.

I grew to be a teenager with
roughly the same view, not
having listened to any of your music
since back when you played every 30 seconds
on the radio.

Pissed to the gills one night
I heard you warble out of
the jukebox and I finally
heard your words, your character,
your intensity came rolling out and
I finally got it.

Thank you for giving me another
shot at it.

Say hi to June for me.

I bet she was missing ya