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A Boy Named Sue is een single van Johnny Cash. Het nummer stond drie weken op nummer twee in de Amerikaanse hitlijst, achter Honky Tonk Women van The Rolling Stones, en is een jaarlijks terugkerend nummer in de Top 2000 van Radio 2. De single is terug te vinden op zijn live-lp At San Quentin, genoemd naar de gevangenis - San Quentin State Prison - waar hij toen veel optrad.

"A Boy Named Sue" is a song written by Shel Silverstein and made famous by Johnny Cash. Cash recorded the song live in concert on February 24, 1969, at California's San Quentin State Prison for his At San Quentin album. Cash also performed the song (with comical variations on the original performance) in December 1969 at Madison Square Garden. The live San Quentin version of the song became Cash's biggest hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and his only top ten single there, spending three weeks at No. 2 in 1969, held out of the top spot by "Honky Tonk Women" by The Rolling Stones. The track also topped the Billboard Hot Country Songs and Easy Listening charts that same year and was certified Gold on August 14, 1969, by the RIAA.

Silverstein's recording was released the same year as "Boy Named Sue", a single on the album Boy Named Sue (and His Other Country Songs), produced by Chet Atkins and Felton Jarvis.