Understand Your Man

{{Infobox song

| name = Understand Your Man

| cover = Understand_Your_Man_cover.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Johnny Cash

| album = I Walk the Line

| B-side = Dark as a Dungeon

| released = January 1964

| format =

| recorded = June 1963

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = Country, folk{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BSHTGsnI8skC&dq=Johnny+Cash+The+Man+COmes+Around+rockabilly&pg=PA278|title=Louisiana Rocks!: The True Genesis of Rock and Roll|author=Aswell, Tom|publisher=Pelican Publishing Company|date=September 23, 2010|page=278|isbn=9781455607839}}

| length = 2:42

| label = Columbia

| writer = Johnny Cash

| producer = Don Law
Frank Jones

| prev_title = The Matador

| prev_year = 1963

| next_title = Dark as a Dungeon

| next_year = 1964

}}

"Understand Your Man" is a song written and recorded by American singer Johnny Cash.{{Pop Chronicles |10 |3 |Johnny Cash}} It was released in January 1964 as the first single from the album I Walk the Line. The single went to #1 on the country charts for six weeks.{{cite book |title= The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=75}} The song also crossed over to the Top 40, peaking at #35.{{cite book |title= The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits: Eighth Edition |last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=111}}

Cash Box described it as "a medium-paced, rhythmic ditty which offers a meaningful plea for man-woman understanding."{{cite magazine |title=CashBox Record Reviews |date=January 25, 1964 |page=8 |access-date=2022-01-12 |url=https://worldradiohstory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/60s/1964/CB-1964-01-25.pdf |magazine=Cash Box}}

Cash borrowed parts of the melody from Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right",{{cite book|last=Turner|first=Steve|title=The man called Cash: the life, love, and faith of an American legend|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6qaANnvGwGkC&q=%22understand+your+man%22+%22don%27t+think+twice%22&pg=PT211|year=2005|publisher=Thomas Nelson Inc|isbn=0-8499-0815-9}} which itself is borrowed from the song "Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons When I'm Gone".

It was also the last song Cash ever performed in front of an audience. It was the last song in his performance at the Carter Family Fold in Hiltons, Virginia, on 5 July 2003. Prior to singing it, Cash told the audience that at that point he had not performed it live in 25 years. (It was not, however, the final song he ever sang as, despite failing health, he continued to make studio recordings until late August 2003, shortly before his death.)