Sunday Morning Coming Down, <\/em>is amongst our all-time faves and has been covered by many of the greats.\u00a0 We prefer the songwriter’s version below.<\/p>\nWith economy, Kristofferson deftly conveys both the large and the small losses.\u00a0 One of the best.<\/p>\n
“Well I woke up Sunday morning
\nwith no way to hold my head
\nthat didn’t hurt.
\nAnd the beer I had for breakfast wasn’t bad
\nso I had one more for dessert.
\nThen I fumbled through my closet for my clothes and found my cleanest dirty shirt.
\nAnd I shaved my face and combed my hair and
\nstumbled down the stairs to meet the day.<\/p>\n
I’d smoked my brain the night before on
\ncigarettes and songs that I’d been picking.
\nBut I lit my first and watched a small kid
\ncussing at a can that he was kicking.
\nThen I crossed the empty street and caught the Sunday smell of someone frying chicken.
\nAnd it took me back to something
\nthat I’d lost somehow
\nsomewhere along the way.<\/p>\n
On this Sunday morning sidewalk,
\nwishing, Lord, that I was stoned.
\n‘Cause there’s something in a Sunday,
\nmakes a body feel alone.
\nAnd there’s nothing short of dying,
\nhalf as lonesome as the sound,
\non the sleeping city sidewalks,
\nSunday morning coming down.<\/p>\n
In the park I saw a daddy
\nwith a laughing little girl who he was swinging.
\nAnd I stopped beside a Sunday school and listened to a song that they was singing.
\nThen I headed back for home and somewhere far away
\na lonely bell was ringing.
\nAnd it echoed through the canyons
\nlike the disappearing dreams of yesterday.<\/p>\n
On this Sunday morning sidewalk,
\nwishing, Lord, that I was stoned.
\n‘Cause there’s something in a Sunday,
\nmakes a body feel alone.
\nAnd there’s nothing short of dying,
\nhalf as lonesome as the sound,
\non the sleeping city sidewalks,
\nSunday morning coming down.”<\/p>\n
Kris Kristofferson–Sunday Morning Coming Down<\/em><\/p>\n[audio:https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-01-Sunday-Mornin-Comin-Down.mp3|titles=1-01 Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down]\nAnd for good measure, here are a couple of alternative takes by a couple of unknowns.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6w9F7zf_2mM<\/p>\n
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Kris Kristofferson has written and performed some of the great songs of the American songbook.\u00a0 He is the Pendleton Poet; one of the best song wordsmiths to ever grace us.\u00a0 Sometimes those summa cum laude’s from Pomona College and Rhodes Scholarships pay off.\u00a0 His bio is dense, including a plethora of films, loves and laurels.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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