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Five Feet High and Rising (song)
1959 single by Johnny Cash From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Five Feet High and Rising" is a song written[3] and originally recorded by Johnny Cash.
The song was recorded by Cash on March 12, 1959[4][5] for his third Columbia album[6] and released as a single on July 6, 1959,[7] with "I Got Stripes" (another song from the same recording session) on the opposite side.[4][5][6][8][9][10][11]
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The song is a first person account of the 1937 flood that Cash, then aged four years and 11 months, endured with his family. They had to leave their home and flee.[5][6][9][10]
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."[12]
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