Fox: "Book Reveals Johnny Cash Sick, Grief-Stricken"

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,129016,00.html

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Sick and consumed by grief after his wife's death, Johnny Cash struggled to record his last songs and spoke regularly with the Rev. Billy Graham for comfort, according to a new family authorized biography.

"He would look at me, a couple of times with tears in his eyes, and he would say, 'I can hardly wait to see heaven, to see the Lord and to see our family,"' Cash's sister Joanne Yates tells author Steve Turner in his book, "The Man Called Cash: The Life, Love and Faith of an American Legend," set for release Sept. 13.

Several projects commemorating Cash and his music are in the works including the movie "Walk the Line" starring Joaquin Phoenix (search) as Cash and Reese Witherspoon as June Carter. It's planned for release next spring or summer.

Singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson, a longtime Cash friend, wrote the foreword to Turner's book, and Cash's family and manager were involved as well. "My father OK'd the book before he passed away," his son, John Carter Cash, told The Associated Press. "Steve interviewed myself and all of my sisters. We all gave our hearts and were pretty open about our lives with our father."



Johnny Cash with June Carter Cash at the first Americana Awards Show in Nashville, Tenn., Friday, Sept. 13, 2002.

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1. Johnny Cash was also against the war

and said so on Larry King.

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2. Lyrics to "The Man in Black" demonstrate where Cash stood, politically

Well, you wonder why I always dress in black,
Why you never see bright colors on my back,
And why does my appearance seem to have a somber tone.
Well, there's a reason for the things that I have on.

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down,
Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town,
I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime,
But is there because he's a victim of the times.

I wear the black for those who never read,
Or listened to the words that Jesus said,
About the road to happiness through love and charity,
Why, you'd think He's talking straight to you and me.

Well, we're doin' mighty fine, I do suppose,
In our streak of lightnin' cars and fancy clothes,
But just so we're reminded of the ones who are held back,
Up front there ought 'a be a Man In Black.

I wear it for the sick and lonely old,
For the reckless ones whose bad trip left them cold,
I wear the black in mournin' for the lives that could have been,
Each week we lose a hundred fine young men.

And, I wear it for the thousands who have died,
Believen' that the Lord was on their side,
I wear it for another hundred thousand who have died,
Believen' that we all were on their side.

Well, there's things that never will be right I know,
And things need changin' everywhere you go,
But 'til we start to make a move to make a few things right,
You'll never see me wear a suit of white.

Ah, I'd love to wear a rainbow every day,
And tell the world that everything's OK,
But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back,
'Till things are brighter, I'm the Man In Black.