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I Got Stripes
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Wikipedia article
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| name = I Got Stripes
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| type = single
| artist = Johnny Cash
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| A-side = "I Got Stripes"
"Five Feet High and Rising"
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| genre = Country
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| label = Columbia 4-41427
| writer = Charlie Williams, Johnny Cash
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| prev_title = Katy Too
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| prev_year = 1959
| next_title = Goodbye Little Darlin'
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"'I Got Stripes'" is a song recorded by Johnny Cash.
The Cash's version is credited to him and Charlie Williams, but they borrowed from a song by Lead Belly titled "'On a Monday'".
Lead Belly's original, also known as "'Yellow Women's Door Bells'" and "'Almost Done'", was recorded and released by him in 1939 and reflected his "prison experiences".
Johnny Cash version
The song was recorded by Cash on March 12, 1959 and released as a single in July, with "Five Feet High and Rising" (another song from the same recording session) on the opposite side.
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".
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Category:Lead Belly songs
Category:Johnny Cash songs
Category:1959 songs
Category:1959 singles
Category:Songs written by Johnny Cash
Category:Columbia Records singles
Category:Songs about prison
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