Johnny Cash - Apache Tears video free download

Chuck Heppner

IMHO, The Man in Black was the epitome of country and western music. Johnny Cash was an innovative singer, guitarist and songwriter whose music typically gave a subtle thumbs-up to the poor and the downtrodden everywhere. He well knew the pain, misery and degradation that the powers that be have always dealt to the common man and he put it into music as no one else ever has. He used his very own brand of innovation to blend country, rock, blues and gospel influences together to create a most unique and beautiful sound *Born on February 26, 1932, in Kingsland, Arkansas, Singer, Songwriter and Musician Johnny Cash, was born John R. Cash, on February 26, 1932, in Kingsland, Arkansas. The son of poor Southern Baptist sharecroppers, Cash, one of seven children born to Ray and Carrie Rivers Cash, moved with his family at the age of 3 to Dyess, Arkansas, so that his father could take advantage of the New Deal farming programs instituted by President Roosevelt. There, the Cash clan lived in a five-room house and farmed 20 acres of cotton and other seasonal crops.*John, or J.R. as he was known to those close to him, spent the bulk of the next 15 years out in the fields, working alongside his parents and brothers and sisters. It wasn't always an easy life, Cash would later recall. At the age of 10 he was hauling water for a road gang and at 12 years old he moving large sacks of cotton.*"The entire family, my parents, two brothers and two sisters spent the first night in the truck under a tarpaulin" Cash once said about his family's move to Dyess. "The last thing I remember before going to sleep was my mother beating time on the old Sears-Roebuck guitar, singing 'What Would You Give In Exchange For Your Soul."*Music was indeed one of the ways the Cash family found escape from some of the hardship. Songs surrounded the young Johnny Cash, be it his mother's folk and hymn ballads, or the working music people sang out in the fields.*Johnny Cash, joined the Air Force in 1950 and trained in Texas where he met his first wife. After his service and discharge, he formed a band and landed a record deal. In 1955, when signing with Sun Records, he took Johnny Cash as his stage name. By the early 1960s, he was a musical superstar, known for his innovative hit songs with gospel undertones. In 1967, he married June Carter.*After researching his ancestry he had discovered that he was of Scottish royal descent, among other things such as English and Scots-Irish. After the opportunity of meeting with former Falkland, Fife laird, Major Michael Crichton-Stuart, he traced the Cash family tree to 11th-century Fife, Scotland. Scotland’s Cash Loch bears the name of his family.*Although Johnny Cash, learned that he was not of Native American descent, his empathy and compassion for Native Americans was unabated. Such feelings were expressed in several of his songs, including “Apache Tears” and “The Ballad of Ira Hayes”, and on his album, Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian, et cetera etc.*He recorded his last track of his final album a week before his death in 2003. “I'd like to wear a rainbow every day / and tell the world that everything is o.k. / But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back. / Until things are brighter, I'm the Man in Black.” ~ Johnny Cash

Slyismylife54321

As much as I'd like to be a 100% patriot for my country, the United States has had major fuck ups.

Deborah Larkowski

i love my apache brother johny.

Victoria Kelly

Overheard at a grocery store by someone waiting in line behind a woman speaking on her cellphone in another language . After the woman hangs up, he speaks up. Man: I didn't want to say anything while you were on the phone, but you're in America now. you need to speak English.woman: excuse me?Man: very slow if you want to speak Mexican then go back to Mexico. In America we speak English.Woman: Sir, I was speaking Navajo. If you want to speak English, go back to England.

Victoria Kelly

this is such a sad song...

bretadounitedfc

I love being a true american....a meso-american.....everybody else is just visiting

douglas labarbera

"Petrified, but justified, are these Apache tears.""Where the soldiers lay her back, are the black Apache tears."

Marilyn Jones

A reminder that man's inhumanity to man, has been around awhile. :(

c bones

I just wanted to come here and learn the meaning of the lyrics instead a bunch of racial bickering, surprise surprise. There's no posts about this song on songmeanings.com

Anja Kuoppala

Native americans are the most beautiful people on Earth in many ways. Is it the reason they are so mistreated? It's not right!

John Wayne

Great song!

Whipsters Idle

I listen to this song, drunk, and with an Apache tear in my left hand.

THOR AXE

From a European view the native American is the only true American!! 100% respect to the native American & thank you Johnny Cash for teaching us the truth about american history... keep the small minded scumbags, we dont want them back!

HeritageOfCemanahuac

Scumbag pos. GO BACK TO EUROPE WHERE YOU BELONG.

thouit

Someone hasn't researched christian history very well Christians have always been invaders

walter jones

THAT IS TRUE THE WHITE MAN KICKED THEM OUT AT THE ALMO WERE THEY LIVE NOW IS IS NOT MEXICO ITS WERE THEY PLACED THEM

walter jones

TRUE AMERICA IS A CHRISTAIN NATION A JOKE LOOK AT HER HISTORY A DISGRACEFUL HISTORY

walter jones

TRUE THEY STOLE THE LAND RAPED OUR WOMEN KILLED US OFF WITH THEIR SICKNESS

jebidi117

you dont deserve to breath

john burns

I have a question...When are the origional natives of this country going to get mad enough to get Obozo out of the white house?

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