Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for October 08, 2024

Losing Kris is really a difficult one for a lot of us.

RIP Kris, a life well done. I can’t think of him without thinking of “Why Me”. I saw an interview of him on how the song came about.

Amazing!

Yesterday a few comments questioned how Mr. Johnson could have the “lead time” to honor Kris Kristofferson just nine days after his death but Arlo’s musings today leave little doubt that was just what JJ was doing. A couple years ago Willie Nelson summed up the kind of force Kris was. “Everything he writes is a standard and we’re all just going to have to live with that.”

That’s my favorite one Arlo. I’ve played Me and Bobby Mcgee in bar bands. Very fun song to play.

It must be Earworm Season.

Gonna miss Kris Kristofferson. Johnny Cash did him proud.

I do that song quite a bit although it’s usually just Send In The Clowns.

Anyhoo:

Well, I woke up Sunday mornin’

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 songs I’d been pickin’

But I lit my first and watched a small kid

Playin’ with a can that he was kickin’

Then I walked across the street

And caught the Sunday smell of someone’s fryin’ chicken

And Lord, it took me back to somethin’ that I’d lost

Somewhere, somehow along the way

On a Sunday mornin’ sidewalk

I’m wishin’, Lord, that I was stoned

‘Cause there’s somethin’ in a Sunday

That makes a body feel alone

And there’s nothin’ short a’ dyin’

That’s half as lonesome as the sound

Of the sleepin’ city sidewalk

And Sunday mornin’ comin’ down

In the park I saw a daddy

With a laughin’ little girl that 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 through the canyons

Like the disappearin’ dreams of yesterday

On a Sunday mornin’ sidewalk

I’m wishin’, Lord, that I was stoned

‘Cause there’s somethin’ in a Sunday

That makes a body feel alone

And there’s nothin’ short a’ dyin’

That’s half as lonesome as the sound

Of the sleepin’ city sidewalk

And Sunday mornin’ comin’ down

Season depression ?

Kris Kristofferson was a musical genius…

Songs of Kris Kristofferson all, no doubt.

RIP Kris. If you’ve never heard Johnny Cash sing this one, take a few minutes and do it.

Well, it ain’t Arlo Davy, but Johnny Cash….

A poem of loneliness by Kris, one of his best.

…I wish it Lord that I were stoned!Cause there’s somethin in a SundayThat makes a body feel alone…

Kris Kristopherson…the music of our lives…

Johnny Cash did it proud but the best ever was Vicki Carr on the album “Nashville by Carr”

" I got a brand new pair of roller skates…" Ha, I got you started.

Thanks again to Kris Kristopherson and to Johnny Cash. Good music in my opinion.

Janis Joplin died October 7th in 1970. Kris Kristofferson died 11 days ago on September 28th.