Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down
By: Kris Kristofferson
Recorded by Johnny. Cash
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
who 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.
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