Related sessions
This song has been recorded during the following studio sessions
Get Back sessions - January 21, 1969 - Day 10
Jan 21, 1969
Get Back sessions - January 31, 1969 - Day 20
Jan 31, 1969
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Song facts
From Wikipedia:
“Five Feet High and Rising” is a song written and originally recorded by Johnny Cash.
The song was recorded by Cash on March 12, 1959 for his third Columbia album and released as a single July, with “I Got Stripes” (another song from the same recording session) on the opposite side.
Content
The song is a first person account of the 1937 Mississippi flood that Cash, then aged four years and 11 months, endured with his family. They had to leave their home and flee.
Charts
References
Bootlegs
A/B Road Complete Get Back Sessions - Jan 21st, 1969 - 1 & 2
Unofficial album • Released in 2004
0:33 • Rehearsal • Jan.21 - D2-15 - Five Feet High And Rising 21.40
- Session Recording:
- Jan 21, 1969
- Studio :
- Apple Studios, 3 Savile Row, London
A/B Road Complete Get Back Sessions - Jan 31th, 1969 - 1 & 2
Unofficial album • Released in 2004
9:03 • Rehearsal • Medley with "Take This Hammer","Lost John","Bear Cat Mama","Black Dog","Right String, Wrong Yo-Yo","Run For Your Life"
- Performed by :
- Paul McCartney • Ringo Starr • John Lennon • George Harrison
- Session Recording:
- Jan 31, 1969
- Studio :
- Apple Studios, 3 Savile Row, London
Live performances
Paul McCartney has never played this song in concert.
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