Douglas Alexander: “today I am introducing a concurrent resolution honoring Johnny Cash. Johnny Cash died on Friday in Nashville. The man…”

“today I am introducing a concurrent resolution honoring Johnny Cash. Johnny Cash died on Friday in Nashville. The man whose singing voice sounded like a big freight train coming, is gone. The concurrent resolution I introduce today is on behalf of my colleague, the majority leader, Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee, the Senators from Arkansas, Mrs. Lincoln and Mr. Pryor, and the distinguished Senator Roberts, who probably knows the words to ``I Walk the Line,'' as do most of us all over the world. Johnny Cash lived a little bit outside of Nashville. I was in his home one time and I asked him: Johnny, how many nights do you perform on the road? He looked at me with some surprise. He said: Oh, about 300 a year. Why do you do that, I asked him in amazement? He looked back at me equally amazed. He said: That is what I do. All weekend the radio stations have been playing the songs of the man who performed 300 times a year for all of us, the ``man in black.''”