Английская Википедия:Five Feet High and Rising (song)

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"Five Feet High and Rising" is a song written[1] and originally recorded by Johnny Cash.

The song was recorded by Cash on March 12, 1959[2][3] for his third Columbia album[4] and released as a single on July 6, 1959,[5] with "I Got Stripes" (another song from the same recording session) on the opposite side.[2][3][4][6][7][8][9]

Content

The song is a first person account of the 1937 flood that Cash, then aged four years and 11 months, endured with his family. They had to leave their home and flee.[3][4][7][8]

Legacy

The song provided the inspiration for the name of De La Soul's debut album "Three Feet High and Rising" and is sampled in the song "The Magic Number."[10]

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