I Got Stripes

"I Got Stripes" is a song co-written and originally recorded by Johnny Cash.
The song was recorded by Cash on March 12, 1959 and released as a single in July, with "Five Feet High and Rising" (another song from the same recording session) on the opposite side.
Composition.
It is a "raucous prison tale". It was written by Johnny Cash and Charlie Williams, a DJ from Los Angeles and his friend. They borrowed from a song by LeadBelly titled "On a Monday".