posted March 25, 2007 07:04 PM         

Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down

Kris Kristofferson

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 through my closet for my clothes
And found my cleanest dirty shirt
And I shaved my face and combed my hair
And stumbled down the stairs to meet the day.

I'd smoked my brain the night before on cigarettes
and songs that I'd been pickin'
But I lit my first and watched a small kid
Cussin' at a can that he was kickin'.

Then I crossed the empty street
And caught the Sunday smell of someone frying chicken
And it took me back to something
That I'd lost somehow, somewhere along the way.

On the Sunday morning sidewalks
Wishing Lord that I was stoned
'Cause there's something in a Sunday
Makes a body feel alone

And there's nothing short of dying
Half as lonesome as the sound
On the sleeping city sidewalks
Sunday mornin' comin' down.

In the park I saw a daddy
With a laughing little girl who he was swinging
And I stopped beside a Sunday school
And listened to the song that they were singing.

Then I headed back for home
And somewhere far away a lonely bell was ringing
And it echoed through the canyons
Like the disappearing dreams of yesterday.

On the Sunday morning sidewalks
Wishing Lord that I was stoned
'Cause there's something in a Sunday
Makes a body feel alone

And there's nothing short of dying
Half as lonesome as the sound
On the sleeping city sidewalks
Sunday mornin' comin' down.

posted April 01, 2007 11:28 PM         

I am not sure which one of them did the original version first. He and Johnny Cash were very good friends so it's possible that Cash did the song first.

posted April 02, 2007 10:38 PM         

Kris Kristofferson wrote the song " Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down " and recorded it in April of 1971. It was his first recording. Johnny Cash, who talked him into performing his songs instead of just writing them, recorded the song in Oct. of 1971. It was a hit for Johnny Cash and the song won the Country Music award for best song of the year.

Johnny Cash always jokingly called it his "restoring the g's song," teasing Kristofferson because when he sang it and wrote it he left the g's off the ending of all the words in the song.

Most of Kris Kristofferson's songs were made hits by other artists. The most well known one is Janis Joplin's version of " Me and Bobby McGee." Later Kris Kristofferson said that when he wrote that song he never knew it could sound like that. He stated, " Janis sang the hell out of that song."

Kris Kristofferson has had an astounding life. He was from a military family and he joined the military. Like his dad he served in the air force, flying planes and helicopters. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Pomona College and secured a prestigious Rhodes scholarship to continue his studies at Oxford University in England. Kristofferson also attended West Point.

His greatest hit was what I consider the most beautiful love song ever written , " Loving Her Was Easier ( Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again.)" Even though Roger Miller also recorded that song, (one of many of Kristofferson's song's he recorded and had big hits with) that song went gold for Kristofferson as well and no one could ever top him in singing that song.

Oh yeah, and added to his accomplishments is a Golden Globe Award for best actor for his role opposite Barbra Striesand in " A Star is Born." Although in his modest way Kris Kristofferson always said that was Barbra's movie. He just showed up.

posted April 03, 2007 11:39 AM         

Loving Her Was Easier (Than anything I'll ever do again)

I have seen the morning
burning golden
on the mountains in the skies.
Aching with the feeling
of the freedom of an eagle when she flies.
Turning on the world the way she smiled upon my soul as I lay dying.
Healing as the colours in the
sunshine and the shadows of her eyes.

Waking in the morning to the
feeling of her fingers on my skin.
Wiping out the traces of the
people and the places that I've been.
Teaching me that yesterday was something that I never thought of trying.
Talking of tomorrow and the
money, love and time we had to spend.

Loving her was easier than anything I'll ever do again.

Coming close together with a
feeling that I've never known before,
in my time.
She ain't ashamed to be a woman,
or afraid to be a friend.
I don't know the answer to the
easy way she opened
every door in my mind.
But dreaming was as easy as
believing it was never gonna end.

And loving her was easier than anything I'll ever do again.

~Kris~ Cancer/Leo Moon