Tennessee Flat Top Box is a country song with English lyrics, written by Johnny Cash, who is credited as both the composer and the lyricist. Cash recorded it in 1961, and the recording was issued as a single on Columbia Records in December of that year. It was later included on the compilation Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash. Cash's version is therefore the original recording of the song.
Rosanne Cash recorded the song in 1987, and her version reached number one on the Billboard country chart in February 1988. The title refers to an acoustic guitar, the flat-top box of the song's name, and the lyrics follow a little boy who dreams of becoming a country singer, rising to popularity in a South Texas border town before returning on television with his dream fulfilled.
