Get Rhythm

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"Get Rhythm" is a song written and recorded by Johnny Cash.

The song is a bouncy, upbeat number, centering on a shoeshine boy who "gets rhythm" to cope with the tedious nature of his job.

Walk the line

The song was featured in the 2005 film, Walk the Line, performed by Joaquin Phoenix, as part of a road show scene which also featured actors playing Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and other singers who were just starting their careers at the time. The show serves to illustrate how blurred the lines were between the Rock and Roll, Rockabilly and Country and Western genres in the mid-1950s. Although Cash's style would typically be regarded as Country, the song itself includes the advice, "get a rock and roll feelin' in your bones".

Early in the film, in a brief scene with no dialogue and no explanation, Cash observes some shoeshine boys at work. When Cash plays the song later, the meaning of that earlier scene becomes clear.

External links

["Get Rhythm" lyrics]
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