"On a Monday" | |
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Single by Lead Belly | |
Released | 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 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Label | Columbia 4-41427 | |||
Songwriter(s) | Charlie Williams, Johnny Cash [1] | |||
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Audio | ||||
"I Got Stripes" on YouTube |
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Source | Rating |
Billboard [2] | Spotlight winner of the week |
"I Got Stripes" is a song recorded by Johnny Cash.
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 |
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