Big River (Johnny Cash song)

"Big River"
Single by Johnny Cash
from the album Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous
ReleasedMarch 1958
GenreRockabilly
Length2:35
LabelSun
Songwriter(s)Johnny Cash
Producer(s)Sam Phillips, Jack Clement
Johnny Cash singles chronology
"Ballad of a Teenage Queen"
(1958)
"Big River"
(1958)
"Guess Things Happen That Way"
(1958)

"Big River" is a song written and originally recorded by Johnny Cash. Released as a single by Sun Records in 1958, it went as high as #4 on the Billboard country music charts and stayed on the charts for 14 weeks. The song tells a story of the chase of a lost love along the course of Mississippi River from Saint Paul, Minnesota to New Orleans, Louisiana.