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The song is literally "gallows humor", as it is sung by a man awaiting his own execution by hanging. Each verse consists of two lines, of which the first line is anything from humorous to poignant, and the second line is a minute-by-minute countdown. Well they're buildin' the gallows outside my cell. I got 25 minutes to go.
The third single, “Boa Constrictor,” was the second Shel Silverstein song Cash recorded (the first being "25 Minutes to Go").It fared even worse than "Everybody Loves a Nut," reaching only #43 [sic!] on the Country chart and #107 on the Pop chart (Cash's last Pop chart entry for over a year).
After a seven-minute version of a song from his Blood, Sweat and Tears album, ... "25 Minutes to Go" Silverstein: 2:57: 14. "Orange Blossom Special" Rouse: 3:36: 15.
He wrote Tompall Glaser's highest-charting solo single "Put Another Log on the Fire", "One's on the Way" and "Hey Loretta" (both hits for Loretta Lynn, in 1971 and 1973 respectively), and "25 Minutes to Go", sung by Johnny Cash, about a man on death row with each line counting down one minute closer. Lynn recorded five songs written by Silverstein.
One of the songs, "25 Minutes to Go", would later be performed at Folsom Prison and appear on Cash's famous At Folsom Prison recording in 1968, while the melody of "Streets of Laredo" would be recycled for the song "The Walls of a Prison" featured on Cash's album From Sea to Shining Sea.
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"25 Minutes" is a song by Danish soft rock band Michael Learns to Rock. It was released on 25 February 1994 on EMI as the third single and as well as the sixth track from their second studio album, Colours (1993). The song is a power ballad, written by vocalist Jascha Richter.
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