Kris Kristofferson - Sunday morning coming down (1970) video free download


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From Kris' debut album "Kristofferson" (1970)

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No-one else has ever sung this song with so much sadness and despair in his voice...

The scenes for my video are from

"Cisco Pike" (1971)

"Trouble in mind" (1985)

"Heaven's Gate" (1980)

"Semi-tough" (1977)

"A star is born" (1976)

a tiny scene is from the bio -docu about Kris and

a tiny effect is from "Millenium"

Kris said in an interview, "This song probably was the most directly autobiographical thing I had written. In those days I was living in a slum tenement that was torn down afterwards, but it was 25 dollars a month in a condemned building, and "Sunday Morning Coming Down" was more or less looking around me and writing about what I was doing. One time, some people broke into that place, and I had to call the police station to answer some questions about it, and the guy said, "Yeah, they really trashed the place when they went in there." But I hadn't noticed that it was any different. There were holes in the wall bigger than I was. It was quite a place, so "Sunday Morning Coming Down" is kind of more or less what I was living at that time. I guess it was depressing, I don't know, but the chorus was kind of uplifting. ... What I was really trying to do was to keep the feeling of loss and of sadness. For me at that time, it was the loss of my family and looking at a little kid swinging on a swing and his daddy pushing him. That was the feeling I wanted to get for the whole song. I think Sunday was the choice because the bars were closed in the morning and nobody was at work, so if you were alone, it was the most alone time..."

Sunday Morning coming 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 (washed) my face and combed my hair

and stumbled down the stairs to meet the day

I'd smoked so much the night before,

my mouth was like an ashtray I'd been licking

(I'd smoked my brain the night before on cigarettes and songs

that I've been pickin')

but I lit my first and watched a small kid

cussin' at a can that he was kicking

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

On the 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 nothin' short of dyin'

half as lonesome as the sound

on the sleepin' city sidewalks

Sunday mornin' comin' down

In the park I saw a daddy

with a laughing little girl who he was swingin'

and I stopped beside a Sunday school

and listened to the song that they were singin'

then I headed back for home and

somewhere far away a lonely bell was ringin'

and it echoed through the canyons like

the disappearing dreams of yesterday.

Sunday Morning coming down

Ich wachte auf am Sonntagmorgen,

fand keine Möglichkeit, meinen Kopf zu halten

ohne dass er schmerzte.

Und das Bier, das ich zum Frühstück hatte war nicht schlecht,

so nahm ich noch eins zum Nachtisch.

Dann tastete ich mich durch meinen Kleiderschrank

nach meinen Klamotten

und fand mein sauberstes Schmutzhemd.

Und ich rasierte (später: wusch ich) mein Gesicht

und kämmte meine Haare

Und stolperte die Treppe runter, um den Tag zu treffen.

Ich hatte die Nacht zuvor so viel geraucht,

dass mein Mund wie ein Aschenbecher war, den ich ausleckte

(später: ich hab die Nacht zuvor meinen Verstand verqualmt

mit Zigaretten und Songs, die ich spielte)

aber ich zündete mir die erste an und beobachtete einen kleinen Jungen,

wie er auf eine Dose fluchte, die er kickte

(Johnny fluchte nicht, er spielte nur mit der Dose).

Dann überquerte ich die leere Straße

und fing den sonntäglichen Geruch von einem Braten ein

und der brachte mich zurück zu etwas,

das ich irgendwie irgendwo auf meinem Weg verloren hatte.

Auf den Gehwegen am Sonntagsmorgen

wünschte ich bei Gott, ich wäre berauscht.

Weil da ist etwas an einem Sonntag,

das einen dazu bringt, sich ganz allein zu fühlen.

Und da ist nichts so nah am Sterben

halb so einsam wie der Klang

auf den verschlafenen Gehwegen der Stadt,

wenn der Sonntagmorgen gerade beginnt.

Im Park sah ich einen Papa

mit einem lachenden kleinen Mädchen,

das er schaukelte.

Und ich hielt an einer Sonntagsschule

und lauschte dem Lied, das sie sangen.

Dann ging ich zurück nach Hause und

hörte irgendwo in der Ferne eine einsame Glocke läuten,

und das Echo hallte durch die Schlucht

wie die verschwindenden Träume von gestern.

Auf den Gehwegen am Sonntag Morgen...

Comments

8 years ago

Michael Hutchings

Sunday morning on a thursday.

8 years ago

Bonnie Rehder

This song touches my heart and my young memories. I love it always come back to it for that touch of heart ♡♡♥♡♡ Thank You

8 years ago

Catherine Watts

Johnnie cash is my all time hero, but this is by far the BEST version I have ever heard.

8 years ago

Keith Beasley

In my very humble opinion, one of the greatest songs of all time and surely one of the most vivid lyrics ever in a song. And no one sings it better than Kris. I am a big Johnny Cash fan, but I think Kris's version has a much greater depth of feeling. I've been lucky enough to see Kris in concert in London a couple of times and when you hear him sing it live it makes the hair on your neck stand up and tingle! Well done for the movie too.

8 years ago

Bruce Sherman

One of the 10 greatest songs ever written, have another beer Kris

8 years ago

Toni Lorenzo

Best Kristofferson song!!

8 years ago

Alet Rheeder

A beautiful Golden Oldie from 1970....

8 years ago

Austin Gaviller

+DWOK CREW

8 years ago

MATTHEW GAUGHRAN

Back when kris k lost his magic beard powers XD

8 years ago

Maggie Ward

Take a look at this video on YouTube:

8 years ago

Gérard Turcotte

Bon dimanche tout en douceur avec Kris Kristofferson chanteur canadien.

8 years ago

Traci Van Velsor

This man is a genius!

8 years ago

Larry Thompson

He finally heard that "lonely bell a'ringin" . . . just in time.

8 years ago

oleoleto

Great, great song...

8 years ago

Wade Davis

Reminds of something off The Wall.

8 years ago

Lowell Thomas, Jr.

This is one of his many GEMS, for sure.

8 years ago

flatroofer

Brilliant.

8 years ago

Bud Burl

Makes you feel not so much alone thanks

8 years ago

Maija Shelley

No one sings it like Kristofferson.Thank you for doing up such a wonderful video.

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