Best Kris Kristofferson songs
25 items ranked
The monument years
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1.
Sunday morning coming down.
'Then I fumbled thru my closet for my clothes and found my cleanest dirty shirt.'
57 points - added 15 years ago by Albert Hand -
2.
Duvalier's dream.
' Duvalier was a bitter man who cursed the morning sun - it brought him new betrayal every day.'
56 points - added 15 years ago by Albert Hand -
3.
Me and Bobby McGee.
40 points - added 15 years ago by guest -
4.
Casey's Last Ride
33 points - added 13 years ago by guest -
5.
When I loved her.
'Well she didn't look as pretty as some others I have known.' A great opening line to a song about finding and then losing the love of your life.
33 points - added 15 years ago by guest -
6.
For the Good Times
30 points - added 11 years ago by guest -
7.
Darby's Castle.
A great song telling a tale of obsession and infidelity.
30 points - added 15 years ago by Albert Hand -
8.
Shandy.
A song that is quite surreal for Kristofferson. 'Laughing at somebody dying - is something that he never did', is a reference to his portayal of 'Billy the kid' in 'Pat Garrett and Billy the kid.' Could Shandy be Janis Joplin.
29 points - added 15 years ago by guest -
9.
Loving her was easier (than anything I'll ever do again).
Beautiful love song.
28 points - added 15 years ago by guest -
10.
The Pilgrim (chapter 23)
'From the rocking of the cradle to the rolling of the hearse - the going up was worth the coming down.' Brilliant stuff.
28 points - added 15 years ago by guest -
11.
Just the other side of nowhere
26 points - added 15 years ago by Albert Hand -
12.
Why Me.
Kris heard Larry Gatlin's religious song 'Help Me' and so decided to write one of his own and this classic is the result.
16 points - added 15 years ago by guest -
13.
Help me make it through the night.
A song about loneliness.
16 points - added 15 years ago by Albert Hand -
14.
Kiss the world goodbye
' I'm like a river that flowed for ever and never got to the sea.'
14 points - added 15 years ago by guest -
15.
Billy Dee
Great song about a drug addict heading for eventual self distruction.
13 points - added 15 years ago by guest -
16.
Here comes that rainbow again.
This is an actual scene from John Steinbeck's ' The grapes of wrath' depicting the kindness in people even in the hardest of times.
9 points - added 15 years ago by guest -
17.
The Good Times.
9 points - added 15 years ago by guest -
18.
Stagger Mountain tragedy
Tale of obsession and murder.
8 points - added 15 years ago by guest -
19.
The best of all possible worlds.
' He said if booze was just a dime a bottle - boy you couldn't even buy the smell.
8 points - added 15 years ago by Albert Hand -
20.
Rocket to Stardom
Fun song.
7 points - added 13 years ago by guest -
21.
Nobody wins.
Sinatra recorded this. He also ruined the point of the song by changing the lyrics.He sang 'the loving was easy - its the leaving thats hard.' When it should have been 'the loving was easy - its the living thats hard.' Something a lot of people can relate to.
4 points - added 15 years ago by guest -
22.
If you don't like Hank Williams.
Here Kris is hitting out at people who knock music that is not in the mainstream or not to their taste. 'I think what they done was well worth doing.'
4 points - added 15 years ago by guest -
23.
The law is for protection of the people.
3 points - added 15 years ago by guest -
24.
I May Smoke Too Much
0 points - added 11 years ago by guest -
25.
SUNDAYmorning coming down
0 points - added 12 years ago by D.S.Shanmugam -
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