Who really wrote Ring of Fire?

I wonder who honestly wrote the song...


" Vivian (the ex wife) claims “June wrote ‘Ring of Fire’ no more than I did.” She said Johnny wrote it with Merle Kilgore and it was about a certain part of a woman’s anatomy. Musician Curly Lewis who toured with Johnny backs up this claim and says the pair wrote it on a fishing trip, and he was present.

“Johnny and Merle Kilgore and I were fishing in Casitas, Calif., and that’s when ‘Ring of Fire’ was created.

“After it got pretty well settled, Johnny told Merle Kilgore that this is gonna be one big song. He said, ‘I’m going to be going through a divorce, and I don’t want it tied up in my divorce, so put June’s name down as the writer.’”

What’s even more shocking are Curly’s claims that the devout Cash used “ring of fire” as a double meaning for June’s genitalia. “Well, use your imagination,” Curly testified on tape. “We got a female part involved. [The] vagina is the ring of fire.”

Vivian contends Johnny told her one day he was giving June half the song writing credit because she needed the money and he felt bad for her. Of course at this point everyone’s dead and we may not ever know the truth. "

http://www.crushable.com/2008/06/04/entertainment/who-wrote-ring-of-fi re/