Este video fai saltar os fusibles! Non o perdades!

Johnny Cash ía tan farto de Columbia Records que en 1984 gravou esta absurda canción autoparódica só para ceibarse do seu contrato coa discográfica. Ou iso é o que din por aí, tampouco sería de estrañar que simplemente fora outro intento de acadar o éxito cunha canción humorística, moi no estilo dos seus ghits "A Boy Named Sue" e "One Piece at a Time". De calquera xeito, o home de negro (Man in Black, un dos seus éxitos, e o seu alcume) convertiuse nun Chicken in Black, un polo de negro!

A canción (e o tremendo video) vai de que a Johnny Cash lle doe a cabeza e vai ao médico, que lle di que o que necesita é un TRANSPLANTE DE CEREBRO. Póñenlle o dun atracador morto, e parece que vai todo ben, pero cando un día entra nun banco de súpeto sáltalle o delincuente interior e... xa vos imaxinades: ARRIBA AS MANS TODO O MUNDO! A xente o recoñece, pero el di que non é Johnny Cash, senón o MANHATTAN FLASH, o mellor atracador de New York!
Días despois vólvelle pasar o mesmo cando vai actuar no Grand Ole Opry, sae ao escenario e de novo apodérase del a súa nova personalidade delictiva.
Entón chama chama ao doutor porque quere os seus vellos miolos de volta, e resulta que non pode ser porque xa llos implantaron A UN POLO, que agora canta as súas cancións con grande éxito e ten asinado un contrato discográfico!
Johnny Cash remata a cancion pedíndolle á xente que se o ven pola rúa e os atraca non lle fagan moito caso, que non é el. E dilles que se teñen dez dólares vaian ver o espectáculo do polo, que é a hostia. E parece que está moi ledo porque dos cartos que fai atracando non paga impostos. (!!!)

Preferín contar a historia ao meu xeito que traducir toda a letra, que é ben longa, e total, ía perder igual a rima e a gracia. Pero aquí a tedes se vos pica a curiosidade:

For two long years my head hurt bad,
So a doctor checked me and he shook his head.
He said, "I'm sorry to tell you,
But your body's outlived your brain."
He said, "I know this doctor in New York, Son,
And he'll fix you right up with a brand new one."
So the head doctor met me,
When I stepped down off of the train.

He said we had this bank robber killed last night;
His body's shot but his brain's alright.
I'll give you a transplant, boy,
And you'll be OK!
I got my new brain in and I was feelin' great,
I went right back to Nashville with no headache.
But something strange happened,
When I walked in the bank one day.

I said, "Stick 'em up ever'body,
I'm robbin' this place!
Drop all of your money in my guitar case.
Don't nobody move,
And don't nobody reach for that door."
A lady said, 'Why you're Johnny Cash!'
I said, "No ma'am, I'm the Manhattan Flash.
And I am the best bank robber in New York!"

Now the other night Roy Acuff called me,
He said, 'John I'd like for you to do the Opry.'
So I went out on the stage, but I couldn't sing.
I got into a half a verse of 'I Walk The Line',
And something snapped in this head of mine.
I yelled, "Stick 'em up! Give me your money, Your watches and rings!"

Well, I called New York,
And talked to that brain quack.
And said, "Doc I gotta have my old brain back!"
He said, 'I'm sorry there, Mr. Cash,
But I can't do that.'
He said, 'I put your brain,
In a chicken last Monday!
He's singing your songs,
and makin' lots of money!
And I got him signed,
To a ten-year recording contract.'

Now friends if you see me
Walkin' down the street,
Remember what you see ain't necessarily me.
And if I try to hold you up,
Don't pay me no mind.
But when you got ten bucks that you can blow,
You oughta catch that Johnny Chicken show.
He's doin' fairs and concert dates,
All up and down the line.

I said, "Stick 'em up ever'body,
I'm robbin' this place!
Drop all of your money in my guitar case.
Don't nobody move,
And don't nobody reach for thatdoor."
A lady said, 'Why you're Johnny Cash!'
I said, "No ma'am, I'm the Manhattan Flash.
And I am the best bank robber in New York!"

Well, I don't pay any income tax...
You don't pay tax on money you steal...
You oughta catch that Johnny Chicken show...
Chicken In Black! hmmmmmmmm!