Sunday Morning Coming Down

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Sunday Morning Coming Down (Engl. The Sunday morning is breaking ) is one of Kris Kristofferson written country song , the 1970 version of Johnny Cash , a number one hit in the country charts was.

Publication and reception

The song was first recorded in 1969 by Ray Stevens and published a year later by the songwriter himself on his debut album Kristofferson .

Also in 1970, a version of Johnny Cash was released, which topped the country charts and number 46 in the pop charts . Cash's version was named Song of the Year at the 1970 Country Music Association Awards . In 1974, Cash sang the song briefly in the Columbo episode Schwanengesang .

Text and creation

The song describes the loneliness of a rundown person ( Then I fumbled through my closet for my clothes and found my cleanest dirty shirt ; Then I rummaged through my closet and found my cleanest dirty shirt ) on a Sunday morning ( There is something in a Sunday makes a body feel alone .; It is probably on Sunday, which is why you feel lonely. ).

What initially arouses the association with a hungover alcoholic ( 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 .; Well, I woke up on Sunday morning and couldn't find a way to get rid of my headache. And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad, so I had another one for dessert. ) Soon turns out to be the loneliness of someone who the security of his family misses ( In the park I saw a daddy with a laughing little girl who he was swingin '… Then I crossed the empty street and caught the Sunday smell of someone fryin' chicken, and it took me back to somethin 'that I had lost somehow, somewhere along the way .; In the park I saw a father with a laughing little girl that he swung around ... Then I crossed the empty street and heard the Sunday smell of a sizzling chicken, and the memory rose in me g on something that I had lost somehow and somewhere along the way. ).

Kris Kristofferson wrote the song at a time when he was feeling very bad after his wife had recently left him with their daughter. He later said about this time: “Sunday was the worst day of the week if you didn't have a family. ... The bars didn't open until noon, so there was no opportunity to do anything during the whole morning. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sunday Morning Coming Down by Johnny Cash. In: songfacts.com. Accessed August 9, 2019 .
  2. ↑ https://www.billboard.com/music/Johnny-Cash/chart-history/hot-100
  3. ↑ https://books.google.de/books?id=0Y93DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT224&lpg=PT224&dq=sunday+morning+coming+down+schwanengesang&source=bl&ots=oGsE1qNuqN&sig=ACfU3U1XvGJYGDh2iAp2U1UoqR-EpyTtaA&hl=de&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi_kNLdo7LlAhXO1qQKHYb4Co8Q6AEwEHoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=sunday % 20morning% 20coming% 20down% 20schwanengesang & f = false
  4. ↑ Rolling Stone: 40 saddest country songs of all time (English; article from September 26, 2014)