"I Got Stripes" is a song recorded by Johnny Cash.
"On a Monday" | |
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Single by Lead Belly | |
Released | 1939 (1939) |
Genre | Country |
"I Got Stripes" | ||||
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Single by Johnny Cash | ||||
A-side | "I Got Stripes" "Five Feet High and Rising" | |||
Released | July 1959 (1959-07) | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Label | Columbia 4-41427 | |||
Songwriter(s) | Charlie Williams, Johnny Cash[1] | |||
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Audio | ||||
"I Got Stripes" on YouTube | ||||
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Billboard[2] | Spotlight winner of the week |
The Cash's version is credited to him and Charlie Williams,[3] but they borrowed from a song by Lead Belly titled "On a Monday".[4]
Lead Belly's original, also known as "Yellow Women's Door Bells" and "Almost Done", was recorded and released by him in 1939[5] and reflected his "prison experiences".[6]
The song was recorded by Cash on March 12, 1959[7][8] and released as a single in July,[9] with "Five Feet High and Rising" (another song from the same recording session) on the opposite side.[7][8][4][10][11][12][13][excessive citations]
According to Robert Hilburn and his book Johnny Cash: The Life, "I Got Stripes" is a "raucous prison tale" written by Johnny Cash and Charlie Williams, a DJ from Los Angeles and Cash's friend. They borrowed from a song by Lead Belly titled "On a Monday".[4]
Chart (1959) | Peak position |
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US Billboard Hot 100[14] | 43 |
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[15] | 4 |
I Got Stripes Five Feet High And Rising.
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