On A Monday...

I think the Johnny Cash version, called I Got Stripes, is the most well known version of this song, but Leadbelly (aka Huddie Ledbetter, aka King of the 12-String Guitar) was the original outlaw and an even bigger bad-ass, and wrote the original words and music to On A Monday.

A little background from the Leadbelly Foundation:
In 1918, [Leadbelly] fought and killed a man in Dallas and was sentenced to thirty years to be served in the state prison in Huntsville, Texas. In 1925, he wrote a song asking Governor Pat Neff for a pardon. Neff, who had promised at his election never to pardon a prisoner, broke his promise and set Huddie Ledbetter free. In 1930, after a fight at a party, he was sentenced to another prison term in the infamous Angola Farm prison plantation in Louisiana. In a way, this was a stroke of luck, because he was discovered by folklorists John and Alan Lomax, who were recording prison songs for the Library of Congress.

PLAY: Leadbelly - On A Monday
PLAY: Johnny Cash - I Got Stripes