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Five Feet High and Rising (song)
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Wikipedia article
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| type = single
| artist = Johnny Cash
| album = Songs of Our Soil
| A-side = "Five Feet High and Rising"
"I Got Stripes"
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| genre = Country
| length = 1:46
| label = Columbia 4-41427
| writer = Johnny Cash
| producer = Don Law
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"'Five Feet High and Rising'" is a song written and originally recorded by Johnny Cash.
The song was recorded by Cash on March 12, 1959 for his third Columbia album and released as a single on July 6, 1959, with "I Got Stripes" (another song from the same recording session) on the opposite side.
Content
The song is a first person account of the 1937 Mississippi flood that Cash, then aged four years and 11 months, endured with his family. They had to leave their home and flee.
Legacy
The song provided the inspiration for the name of De La Soul's debut album "Three Feet High and Rising" and is sampled in the song "The Magic Number."
Charts
References
Category:Johnny Cash songs
Category:1959 singles
Category:Songs written by Johnny Cash
Category:Columbia Records singles
Category:1959 songs
Category:Song recordings produced by Don Law
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