{"id":20891,"date":"2024-06-18T06:11:28","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T06:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=20891"},"modified":"2025-08-20T18:48:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T18:48:18","slug":"understand-your-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/understand-your-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Understand Your Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

D<\/span>\u200b\u200bUnderstand Your Man<\/span>, <\/span>Johnny Cash<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t call my name out your window<\/span> when<\/span> I’m <\/span>leavin<\/span>‘<\/span>,<\/span>
\n<\/span>I won’t even turn my head.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Don’t sent your kinfolk to giv<\/span>e<\/span> me no <\/span>talkin<\/span>‘<\/span>.<\/span>
\n<\/span>I’ll be gone, like I said.<\/span><\/p>\n

You’d just say the same thing<\/span>,<\/span>
\n<\/span>That you be <\/span>sayin<\/span>‘ all along<\/span>.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Just lay there in your bed and keep your mouth shut,<\/span>
\n<\/span>Till I’m gone.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Don’t give me that old familiar <\/span>cry<\/span>in<\/span>\u2019,<\/span> c<\/span>uss<\/span>in<\/span>\u2019,<\/span> moan<\/span>in<\/span>\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Understand your man.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can give my other suit to the Salvation Army,<\/span>
\n<\/span>And everything else I leave behind<\/span>.<\/span>
\n<\/span>A<\/span>in’t<\/span> takin’ <\/span>nothin<\/span>‘ that’ll slow down my <\/span>travelin<\/span>‘<\/span>,<\/span>
\n<\/span>While I’m <\/span>untanglin<\/span>‘ my <\/span>line<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

A<\/span>in’t<\/span> gonna<\/span> repeat, What I said <\/span>before,<\/span>
\n<\/span>While I’m <\/span>breathin<\/span>‘ air that <\/span>ain’t<\/span> been breathed before,<\/span>
\n<\/span>I’ll be as gone as the wild goose in <\/span>the <\/span>winter<\/span>,<\/span><\/p>\n

Then you’ll understand your man<\/span>, <\/span><\/p>\n

Understand your man<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

D\u200b\u200bUnderstand Your Man, Johnny Cash Don’t call my name out your window when I’m leavin‘, I won’t even turn my head. Don’t sent your kinfolk to give me no talkin‘. I’ll be gone, like I said. You’d just say the same thing, That you be sayin‘ all along. Just lay … CLICK TO VIEW SONGUnderstand Your Man<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,116,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-x-bill-chase","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}