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Five Feet High and Rising

Written by Johnny Cash Unreleased song


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This song was recorded during the following studio sessions:

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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.

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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.

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Paul McCartney has never played this song in concert.

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