Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down
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"Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" is a song written by Kris Kristofferson that appeared on Kristofferson's first album. A cover of it by country legend Johnny Cash gained great popularity, garnering the Country Music Association Award for Song of the Year in 1970. Johnny Cash's version was titled "Sunday Morning Coming Down".
In 1971, Cash sang the song live on his television show "Johnny Cash and Friends." The show's executives demanded that he change the lyric, "wishing, Lord, that I was stoned," in order not to offend family audiences, but Cash sang the song exactly as was written.
Cash sings this song in the Columbo episode "Swan Song" in which he guest stars.
[edit] Cover versions
Aside from Johnny Cash's cover, the song has also been covered by punk rock cover band Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, on their October 2006 album Love Their Country and by Atlanta-native singer/songwriter Shawn Mullins on his album "Soul's Core".
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