Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
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“Sunday Morning Coming Down” appears on Cash’s 1970 album, The Johnny Cash Show, recorded live at the Grand Ole Opry.
The song was a number one country hit on the Billboard charts, and it brought attention to it’s writer, who had been working as a janitor for Columbia Records in Nashville. Kristoff...
Well I woke up Sunday morning
With no way to hold my head, that didn't hurt
And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad
So I had one more for dessert
Then I fumbled in my closet through my clothes
And found my cleanest dirty shirt
Then I washed my face and combed my hair
And stumbled down the stairs to meet the day
I'd smoked my mind the night before
With cigarettes and the songs I'd been pickin'
But I lit my first and watched a small kid
Playin' with a can that he was kicking
Then I walked across the street
And caught the Sunday smell of someone's fryin' chicken
And it took me back to somethin'
That I'd lost somewhere, somehow along the way
On a Sunday morning sidewalk
I'm wishing Lord that I was stoned
Cause there's something in a Sunday
That makes a body feel alone
And there's nothin' short of dyin'
That's half as lonesome as the sound
Of a sleepin' city sidewalk
And Sunday mornin' comin' down
In the park I saw a daddy
With a laughin' little girl that he was swingin'
And I stopped beside a Sunday school
And listened to the songs they were singin'
Then I headed down the street
And somewhere far away a lonely bell was ringin'
And it echoed thru the canyon
Like the disappearing dreams of yesterday
On a Sunday morning sidewalk
I'm wishing Lord that I was stoned
Cause there's something in a Sunday
That makes a body feel alone
And there's nothin' short of dyin'
That's half as lonesome as the sound
Of a sleepin' city sidewalk
And Sunday mornin' comin' down
Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down was written by Kris Kristofferson.
Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down was produced by Bob Johnston.
Johnny Cash released Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down on Thu Oct 01 1970.