I Got Stripes

Song recorded by Johnny Cash

"On a Monday"

Single by Lead Belly
Released| 1939 (1939)
Genre| Country
"I Got Stripes"

Single by Johnny Cash
A-side| "I Got Stripes"
"Five Feet High and Rising"
Released| July 1959 (1959-07)
Genre| Country
Length| 2:04
Label| Columbia 4-41427
Songwriter(s)| Charlie Williams, Johnny Cash[1]
Johnny Cash singles chronology
| "Katy Too"
(1959)  | "I Got Stripes"
(1959)  | "Goodbye Little Darlin'"
(1959)

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Audio
"I Got Stripes" on YouTube
Professional ratingsReview scores

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]

## Johnny Cash version

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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]

### Charts

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Chart (1959)  | Peak
position

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US Billboard Hot 100[14] | 43
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[15] | 4

## References

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1. ^ "I Got Stripes / Five Feet High And Rising". Discogs. Retrieved 2019-01-16.
2. ^ Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 6 July 1959. pp. 27–. ISSN 0006-2510.
3. ^ Robert K. Oermann (1999). A Century of Country: An Illustrated History of Country Music. TV Books. ISBN 978-1-57500-083-1. "I Got Stripes Five Feet High And Rising."
4. ^ a b c Robert Hilburn (31 October 2013). Johnny Cash: The Life. Orion. pp. 136–. ISBN 978-0-297-86658-9.
5. ^ "Song: On a Monday written by Leadbelly | SecondHandSongs". SecondHandSongs.
6. ^ Schmid, Will (1990). A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly, Teacher's Guide. R&L Education. ISBN 9780940796850.
7. ^ a b Johnny Cash (2004). Johnny Cash, the Songs. Thunder's Mouth Press. ISBN 9781560256298.
8. ^ a b Don Cusic (15 July 2011). The Cowboy in Country Music: An Historical Survey with Artist Profiles. McFarland. pp. 148–. ISBN 978-0-7864-6314-5.
9. ^ Johnny Cash - I Got Stripes, retrieved 2019-06-15
10. ^ Steve Turner (30 October 2005). The Man Called CASH: The Life, Love and Faith of an American Legend. Thomas Nelson. pp. 245–. ISBN 978-1-4185-7809-1.
11. ^ C. Eric Banister (1 August 2014). Johnny Cash FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Man in Black. Backbeat Books. pp. 62–. ISBN 978-1-61713-608-5.
12. ^ John M. Alexander (16 April 2018). The Man in Song: A Discographic Biography of Johnny Cash. University of Arkansas Press. pp. 6–. ISBN 978-1-61075-628-0.
13. ^ Red Robinson; Peggy Hodgins (1983). Rockbound: Rock'n'roll Encounters. Hancock House. ISBN 978-0-88839-162-9.
14. ^ "Johnny Cash Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved 2019-01-16.
15. ^ "Johnny Cash Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved 2019-01-16.

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