"Strawberry Cake" is a song written and originally recorded by Johnny Cash for his 1976 live album Strawberry Cake.
Released in a live version as single from the album, the song reached number 54 on U.S. Billboard country chart for the week of March 13, 1976. The B-side contained a live version of "I Got Stripes" from the same album.
It is a story song.
Leigh H. Edwards adds that Cash, too, "had worked briefly as a strawberry picker in Arkansas after graduating high school".
In the opinion of Greg Laurie, the author of the book Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon, "Cash's late 1970s outputâÂÂ'The Last Gunfighter Ballad', 'Look at Them Beans', 'Strawberry Cake', and 'The Rambler'âÂÂwas stale and out of touch."