| "Oney" | ||||
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| Single by Johnny Cash | ||||
| from the album Any Old Wind That Blows | ||||
| B-side | "Country Trash" | |||
| Released | July 1972 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 3:07 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Jerry Chesnut | |||
| Producer(s) | Larry Butler | |||
| Johnny Cash singles chronology | ||||
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"Oney" is a song recorded by American country music singer-songwriter Johnny Cash. It was released in July 1972 as the second single from his album Any Old Wind That Blows. The song peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.[1] It also reached number 1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada.[2] The song was written by Jerry Chesnut.
The song is one of several by Cash paying tribute to the working man. This first-person story is about a factory worker who plans to get retribution against his mean boss. In the song's spoken prologue, Cash dedicates the song "to the working man/for every man that puts in a hard eight or 10 hours a day of work and toil and sweat/always got somebody looking down his neck/trying to get more out of him than he really ought to have to put in."