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You should listen to the second song, then. Might change your perspective.
Full disclosure: both were written by Shel Silversein, but Cash refused to perform the latter. This is pre-Where The Sidewalk Ends, mind you. This is The Great Smoke-Off era Silverstein.
edit: Here's Shel Silverstein performing "Father of A Boy Named Sue"
Yeah, "Father of a Boy Named Sue" Is really like "What if, instead of writing a good song, I make myself look like a hugely toxic, ignorant piece of shit by writing this song instead"
I'm not disagreeing with you, though that certainly sounds like your perspective was newly informed by this additional trivia.
I don't understand what you mean. This isn't new trivia. It's just a hugely problematic, incestuous, transphobic song