I Got Stripes

"On a Monday"
Single by Lead Belly
Released1939 (1939)
GenreCountry
"I Got Stripes"
Single by Johnny Cash
A-side"I Got Stripes"
"Five Feet High and Rising"
ReleasedJuly 1959 (1959-07)
GenreCountry
Length2:04
LabelColumbia 4-41427
Songwriter(s)Charlie Williams, Johnny Cash[1]
Johnny Cash singles chronology
"Katy Too"
(1959) 		"I Got Stripes"
(1959) 		"Goodbye Little Darlin'"
(1959)
Audio
"I Got Stripes" on YouTube
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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]

  1. ^ "I Got Stripes / Five Feet High And Rising". Discogs. Retrieved 2019-01-16.
  2. ^ Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (6 July 1959). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 27–. ISSN 0006-2510. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  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. ^ Cite error: The named reference Hilburn2013 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  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.