The Man Comes Around (song)
| "The Man Comes Around" | |
|---|---|
| Song by Johnny Cash | |
| from the album American IV: The Man Comes Around | |
| Released | 2002 |
| Recorded | 4:26 |
| Genre | Country, Americana, folk |
| Label | American Recordings / Universal |
| Songwriter(s) | Johnny Cash |
"The Man Comes Around" is a song from Johnny Cash's American IV: The Man Comes Around album, released in 2002. It was actually written a few years earlier, but Cash updated it for the album. It is one of the last songs Cash wrote before his death.[1] Both sung and spoken, the song makes Biblical references, especially to the Book of Revelation.[2]
References
- ↑ Brinkley, T (Oct 15, 2006), "Walking the Line", The New York times (review),
one of his last original compositions
. - ↑ In the album's liner notes, Cash states that the song is "based, loosely, on the book of Revelation, with a couple of lines or a chorus, from other biblical sources".
Other websites
- Cash, Johnny, "When the Man comes around", LyricWiki (lyrics), archived from the original (wiki) on 2013-12-03, retrieved 2013-10-05.