REMEMBERING KRIS THIS SUNDAY MORNING COMING DOWN

 

(Kristofferson was born in Brownsville, Texas June 22, 1936. The family relocated to San Mateo, California, during his childhood. He enlisted in military service during the early 1960s. After one single for Epic Records. Kristofferson was signed by Monument Records in 1969. Throughout his career, he recorded a total of 10 albums for Monument, two albums for Mercury Records, one album each for Justice Records and Atlantic Records, and two albums each for New West Records and KK Records. In September 1971, Kristofferson made his film debut in The Last Movie and devoted much of the later decade to making Hollywood films. Some of his most famous films include Cisco Pike (1972) A Star is Born (1976), Convoy (1978), Heaven's Gate (1980), the Blade film trilogy (1998–2004), and Payback (1999).

Kristofferson was also a member of the country music supergroup the Highwaymen between 1985 and 1995. He charted 12 times on the American Billboard Hot Country songs charts; his highest-peaking singles there are "Why Me" and "Highwayman", which reached number one in 1973 and 1985, respectively. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2004 and received the Grammy Lifetime Award in 2014. He was a three-time Grammy Award winner, out of 13 total nominations. Kristofferson died in 2024 at the age of 88, three years after announcing his retirement.

Sunday Morning Coming Down

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

[Verse 2]

I'd smoked my brain the night before

On cigarettes and songs that I'd been picking'

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 fryin' chicken

And it took me back to somethin'

That I'd lost somehow, somewhere along the way

[Chorus]

On a Sunday morning sidewalks

Wishing, Lord that I was stoned

Cause there's something in a Sunday

That makes a body feel alone

And there's nothing short of dying

Half as lonesome as the sound

On the sleepin' city sidewalks

Sunday morning coming down