I Got Stripes

"I Got Stripes" is a song recorded by Johnny Cash.

"On a Monday"
Single by Lead Belly
Released	1939 (1939)
Genre	Country

"I Got Stripes"
Single by Johnny Cash
A-side	"I Got Stripes" "Five Feet High and Rising"
Released	July 1959 (1959-07)
Genre	Country
Length	2:04
Label	Columbia 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
Source	Rating
Billboard[2]	Spotlight winner of the week

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]

Johnny Cash version

The song was recorded by Cash on March 12, 1959^[7][8] and released as a single in July,^[9] with "Five Feet High and Rising" (another song from the same recording session) on the opposite side.^{[7][8][4][10][11][12][13][excessive citations]}

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".^[4]

Charts

Chart (1959)	Peak position
US Billboard Hot 100[14]	43
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[15]	4