Johnny Cash - The Early Years

I Got Stripes

On a Monday, I was arrested (uh-huh)
On a Tuesday, they locked me in the jail (oh, boy)
On a Wednesday, my trial was attested
On a Thursday, they said guilty and the Judge's gavel fell

I got stripes, stripes around my shoulders
I got chains, chains around my feet
I got stripes, stripes around my shoulders
And them chains, them chains
They're 'bout to drag me down

On a Monday, got my striped britches (uh-huh)
On a Tuesday, got my ball and chain (oh, boy)
On a Wednesday, I'm working digging ditches
On a Thursday, Lord, I begged them not to knock me down again

I got stripes, stripes around my shoulders
I got chains, chains around my feet
I got stripes, stripes around my shoulders
And them chains, them chains
They're 'bout to drag me down

On a Monday, my momma come to see me (uh-huh)
On a Tuesday, they caught me with a file (oh, boy)
On a Wednesday, I'm down in solitary
On a Thursday, Lord, I start on bread and water for a while

I got stripes, stripes around my shoulders
I got chains, chains around my feet
I got stripes, stripes around my shoulders
And them chains, them chains
They're 'bout to drag me down



Credits
Writer(s): Johnny Cash, Charlie Williams
Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
Link

Other Album Tracks

  1. I Walk the Line
  2. Folsom Prison Blues
  3. Home of the Blues
  4. Guess Things Happen That Way
  5. The Way Of a Woman In Love
  6. I Got Stripes
  7. Get Rhythm
  8. Cry! Cry! Cry!
  9. Hey Porter
  10. Ballad of a Teenage Queen

All Album Tracks: The Early Years >

Altri album

  1. Songwriter
  2. Spotlight / Well Alright
  3. Well Alright
  4. The Best of Johnny Cash: Sun Records Essentials (feat. The Tennessee Two)
  5. INTEGRAL JOHNNY CASH 1954 - 1962
  6. My Way Volume III
  7. My Way Volume II
  8. My Way
  9. Bear's Sonic Journals: Live at The Carousel Ballroom, 4/24/1968
  10. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (Bear's Sonic Journals: Live At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968)

All Albums of Johnny Cash >

© 2024 All rights reserved. Rockol.com S.r.l. Website image policy

Rockol

  • Rockol only uses images and photos made available for promotional purposes (“for press use”) by record companies, artist managements and p.r. agencies.
  • Said images are used to exert a right to report and a finality of the criticism, in a degraded mode compliant to copyright laws, and exclusively inclosed in our own informative content.
  • Only non-exclusive images addressed to newspaper use and, in general, copyright-free are accepted.
  • Live photos are published when licensed by photographers whose copyright is quoted.
  • Rockol is available to pay the right holder a fair fee should a published image’s author be unknown at the time of publishing.

Feedback

Please immediately report the presence of images possibly not compliant with the above cases so as to quickly verify an improper use: where confirmed, we would immediately proceed to their removal.