I feel like a bit of an ingrate complaining about this. A while back I was in the car flipping through the CDs that had been left in the stereo when I came to one that had been burned for my youngest, and to my pleasant surprise I found one of my all time favorite songs on it. I know he sometimes shares my eclectic tastes, but this one caught me completely off guard...
I think it's a great arrangement and I can absolutely see how the little rocker in him would prefer it to most of the classic country versions, but as I sat there in the parking lot listening to the end something started nagging at me. I listened again to make sure nothing distracted me, then listened one more time just to be sure I wasn't just being dense. Sure enough, they left off the entire last verse.
For those of you unfamiliar, here's another version...
Now Cash seems to just append the last verse to the end of the second verse, but you're not really missing anything when he leaves out an extra round of yipie i oh's. When The Outlaws just skip the entire last verse though, it's not even the same song. They pretty much take a haunting ballad about the hope of redemption and turn it into Monster Mash with a western twang. I'll keep listening to it anyway since the instrumentation really is amazing, but I always get a bit bummed when they get to the part where the most important lyrics are supposed to be.
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