Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog Explained

Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog
Type:	song
Artist:	Johnny Cash
Album:	Everybody Loves a Nut
Genre:	country, novelty
Label:	Columbia

"Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog" is a song written by Jack Clement and originally recorded by Johnny Cash on Columbia Records for his novelty album Everybody Loves a Nut, released in 1966. Cash notably performed the song at Folsom Prison on January 13, 1968, and it appears on his live album At Folsom Prison released later that year.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Composition

According to the book The Best of Country Music, it is one of "the two most intentionally silly songs Jack Clement ever wrote", the other being "Flushed from the Bathroom of Your Heart."^[4]

Covers

Agnostic Front recorded a cover of the song, with altered lyrics, on their 1998 album Something's Gotta Give.

Notes and References

1. Book: Billy Edd Wheeler . Real Country Humor: Jokes from Country Music Personalities . august house . 2002 . 978-0-87483-652-3 . 85–.
2. Book: Steve Turner . The man called Cash: the life, love, and faith of an American legend . 1 November 2005 . Thomas Nelson Inc . 978-0-8499-0815-6.
3. Web site: Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison. Discogs. 1968 . 2019-01-16.
4. Book: John Morthland. The best of country music. registration. 1 June 1984. Doubleday. 978-0-385-19192-0. How else would Cash know that he could sit on a stool with just his acoustic guitar and do "Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog" and "Flushed from the Bathroom of Your Heart," the two most intentionally silly songs Jack Clement ever wrote, and these ....