{"id":104619,"date":"2016-11-10T10:30:37","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T15:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=104619"},"modified":"2016-11-10T10:39:26","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T15:39:26","slug":"dont-make-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/10\/dont-make-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Make a Movie About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This month, Blue Rider Press will publish\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/540531\/forever-words-by-johnny-cash\/9780399575136\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forever Words: The Unknown Poems of Johnny Cash<\/a><em>. Compiled from a mountain of Cash\u2019s handwritten poetry (all unpublished)<\/em><em>, the work in\u00a0<\/em>Forever Words<em>\u00a0spans\u00a0the many stages of Cash\u2019s career. \u201cDon\u2019t Make a Movie About Me\u201d is one of many pieces within that reflect Cash\u2019s \u201chumorous strand,\u201d poet Paul Muldoon writes in his introduction. It reflects \u201cCash\u2019s own ambivalence about celebrity and the associated tabloid slobbering.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_104620\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/johnny-cash.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104620\" class=\"wp-image-104620\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/johnny-cash.jpeg\" alt=\"johnny-cash\" width=\"600\" height=\"454\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-104620\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From the cover of <i>Out Among the Stars<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Christmas 1982<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If anybody made a movie out of my life \u2028<br \/>I wouldn\u2019t like it, but I\u2019d watch it twice \u2028<br \/>If they halfway tried to do it right \u2028<br \/>There\u2019d be forty screen writers workin\u2019 day and nite<br \/>They\u2019d need a research team from Uncle Sam <br \/>And go from David Allen Coe to Billy Graham <br \/>It would run ten days in the final cut <br \/>And that would mean leaving out the gossip smut<br \/>And I do request for my children\u2019s sake <br \/>Don\u2019t ever let \u2019em do a new re-make <br \/>The thing I\u2019m sayin\u2019 is, don\u2019t you see, <br \/>Don\u2019t make a movie \u2019bout me <br \/>Even for T.V. <br \/>Don\u2019t make a movie \u2019bout me\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t let \u2019em drag old Hickory Lake <br \/>For my telephones and bottles and roller skates<br \/>Down forty feet in the Cumberland mud<br \/>There\u2019s a rusty old gun that once shed blood <br \/>Out a hundred yards from my lakeside house <br \/>Weighted down with a rock is a skirt and blouse <br \/>A dozen pair of boots that made a dozen corns <br \/>Trombones, trumpets, harmonicas and horns <br \/>And the tapes that I threw from the lakeside door<br \/> Silverstein, and Kristofferson from years before <br \/>Everything has a story that should be let be<br \/>So don\u2019t make a movie \u2019bout me<\/p>\n<p>If they\u2019re hot on a book called <em>Man in Black<\/em> <br \/>Tell \u2019em I\u2019ve got the rights and won\u2019t give back<br \/>If you don\u2019t know my tune you can\u2019t get it right<br \/>I don\u2019t talk about me in <em>Man in White<br \/><\/em>Truth, said the Master, cannot be hid <br \/>But he didn\u2019t say slap it in the face of my kids.<br \/>A stone is a stone and forever a stone <br \/>But I\u2019m part good and bad and then I\u2019m gone<br \/>There is no sin cleaner than the dirtiest <br \/>So there\u2019s a lot about me that I don\u2019t want missed <br \/>If it\u2019s days or years or whatever will be <br \/>Don\u2019t make a movie \u2019bout me<\/p>\n<p>Aw, I might as well face it cause they will some day <br \/>So while I can I\u2019ve got a thing to say<br \/>I don\u2019t know anybody that I said I don\u2019t know<br \/>And there ain\u2019t anybody anywhere I owe<br \/>The I.R.S. gets the lion\u2019s share <br \/>And what is left goes to my own named heirs<br \/>Don\u2019t let \u2019em make it in Hollywood<br \/>If they must, tell \u2019em Arkansas is where they should<br \/>Here\u2019s a hex on whoever makes it be, <br \/>So don\u2019t make a movie \u2019bout me<br \/>For Love or Monee <br \/>Don\u2019t make a movie \u2019bout me<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_104621\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/johnny-cash-facsimile.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104621\" class=\"wp-image-104621\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/johnny-cash-facsimile.png\" alt=\"Facsimile of \u201cDon\u2019t Make a Movie About Me,\u201d from Jonny Cash\u2019s papers.\" width=\"600\" height=\"446\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-104621\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facsimile of \u201cDon\u2019t Make a Movie About Me,\u201d from Johnny Cash\u2019s handwritten poems.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>From <\/em>Forever Words: The Unknown <span class=\"il\">Poems<\/span> by Johnny <span class=\"il\">Cash<\/span><em>, to be published on November 15 by Blue Rider Press, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.\u00a0Foreword copyright \u00a9 2016 by John Carter <span class=\"il\">Cash<\/span>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month, Blue Rider Press will publish\u00a0Forever Words: The Unknown Poems of Johnny Cash. 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