Today in '99, America lost a great poet, songwriter and one of her true
originals: Sheldon Alan "Shel" Silverstein died at age 69. Many parents and their kids know and love his poetry books such as Where the Sidewalk Ends and The Giving Tree, but may not know he also wrote songs such as Dr.
Hook's On the Cover of the Rolling Stone, Sylvia's Mother and this
narrative masterpiece that was Johnny Cash's biggest charting single
ever.
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