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<h1>Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down</h1><h2>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</h2><h2><img src="https://i.imgur.com/SQGZCz9.jpg"></h2><h2>"<strong>Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down</strong>" is a song written by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kris_Kristofferson" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kris Kristofferson</a> that was recorded in 1969 by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Stevens" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ray Stevens</a> before becoming a #1 hit on the <em>Billboard</em> US Country chart for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Cash" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Johnny Cash</a>.</h2><h2><br></h2><h2>History</h2><p>Stevens' version of the song reached #55 on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Billboard</em></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Country_Singles" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hot Country Singles</a> chart and #81 on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hot 100</a> pop chart in 1969. In 2021, it was listed at #476 on Rolling Stone's "Top 500 Best Songs of All Time".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Mornin%27_Comin%27_Down#cite_note-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[1]</a> It also appeared on the author's own album <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristofferson_(album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Kristofferson</em></a>.</p><p>In a 2013 interview, Kristofferson said the song "opened up a whole lot of doors for me. So many people that I admired, admired it. Actually, it was the song that allowed me to quit working for a living."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Mornin%27_Comin%27_Down#cite_note-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[2]</a></p><h2><br></h2><h2>Johnny Cash version</h2><p>The biggest success on disc for the song came from a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Cash" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Johnny Cash</a> performance that had been taped live at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryman_Auditorium" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ryman Auditorium</a> during a taping of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Johnny_Cash_Show_(TV_series)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Johnny Cash Show</em></a> as part of a "Ride This Train" segment, with filmed background visuals showing a down-and-out wanderer roaming around the Public Square area of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelbyville,_Tennessee" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Shelbyville, Tennessee</a>. Cash introduced the song with the following monologue:</p><p>"You know, not everyone who has been on 'the bum' wanted it that way. The Great Depression of the 30s set the feet of thousands of people—farmers, city workers—it set 'em to ridin' the rails. My Daddy was one of those who hopped a freight train a couple of times to go and look for work. He wasn't a bum. He was a hobo but he wasn't a bum. I suppose we've all....all of us 'been at one time or another 'drifter at heart', and today like yesterday there's many that are on that road headin' out. Not searchin' maybe for work, as much as for self-fulfillment, or understanding of their life...trying to find a *meaning* for their life. And they're not hoppin' freights much anymore. Instead they're thumbin' cars and diesel trucks along the highways from Maine to Mexico. And many who have drifted...including myself...have found themselves no closer to peace of mind than a dingy backroom, on some lonely Sunday morning, with it comin' down all around you."</p><p>With the monologue edited off, the recording would appear on the soundtrack LP <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Johnny_Cash_Show_(album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Johnny Cash Show</em></a> the following year, as well as being issued as a single (Columbia Records 4-45211). Cash's version won the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_Music_Association_Awards" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Country Music Association Award</a> for Song of the Year in 1970 and hit #1 on the country chart.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Mornin%27_Comin%27_Down#cite_note-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[3]</a></p><p>This version was used in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbo" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Columbo</em></a> episode <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_Song_(Columbo)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Swan Song</em></a> in 1974, in which Cash performed it during a garden party.</p><p>According to Kristofferson, network executives ordered Cash to change the line "I'm wishing Lord that I was stoned" when he performed the song on his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Johnny_Cash_Show" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TV show</a>, but he refused to comply.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Mornin%27_Comin%27_Down#cite_note-4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[4]</a></p><p><br></p><h2>The, Picture Above is of The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington DC (Taken By Yours Truly)</h2><p><br></p><p><br></p>