Day 256: I Walk the Line

I Walk the Line by Johnny Cash

If you read enough articles, interviews and liner notes, you can try to piece together the story of what inspired “I Walk the Line,” but Johnny Cash is a masterful storyteller. And even his good friend Kris Kristofferson has said he’s half-truth, half-fiction. The humming at the start of each verse? Cash said he picked that up from Dr. Hollingsworth, a physician in his hometown who was always humming. Then there’s lyric, `I keep my eyes wide open all the time,’ which Cash said was based on a piece of advice from a Dale Carnegie business course.

https://www.npr.org/2000/12/23/1115971/npr-100-i-walk-the-line