Understand Your Man

"Understand Your Man"
Single by Johnny Cash
from the album I Walk the Line
B-side	"Dark as a Dungeon"
Released	January 1964
Recorded	June 1964
Genre	Country, folk
Label	Columbia
Writer(s)	Johnny Cash
Producer(s)	Don Law Frank Jones
Johnny Cash singles chronology
"The Matador" (1963) "Understand Your Man" (1964) "Dark as a Dungeon" (1964)

"Understand Your Man" is a 1964 single by Johnny Cash.^[1] The single went to number one on the country charts for six weeks.^[2] "Understand Your Man" also crossed over to the Top 40, peaking at number 35.^[3]

Cash borrowed parts of the melody from Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right".^[4]

"Understand Your Man" was also the last song Cash ever performed in front of an audience. It was the last song in his performance at the Carter Family Fold in Hiltons, Virginia, on 5 July 2003. Prior to singing it, Cash told the audience that at that point he had not performed it live in 25 years. (It was not, however, the final song he ever sang as despite failing health he continued to make studio recordings until late August 2003, shortly before his death.)

Chart performance

Chart (1964)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles	1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	35

References

1. Johnny Cash interviewed on the Pop Chronicles (1969)
2. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 75.
3. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits: Eighth Edition. Record Research. p. 111.
4. Turner, Steve (2005). The man called Cash: the life, love, and faith of an American legend. Thomas Nelson Inc. ISBN 0-8499-0815-9.