Kris Kristofferson - For the good times (1970)

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    "For the good times" from Kris' debut album "Kristofferson".
    It's so sad and beautiful at the same time...
    Great lyrics as always, and this beautiful tune ... I love it!
    Of course this song was not written about Rita and him,
    but things always happen twice in one's lifetime...
    It was Kris' first No 1 country hit as a writer in 1970
    It was "Song of the Year" (and "Single Record of the Year") of the Academy of Country Music in 1970 -
    (That was the first time a writer had won "Song of the Year" awards from both the Country Music Association - with "Sunday Mornin' comin' down"- AND the Academy of Country Music for different songs in the same year)
    In 1971 Ray Price won a Grammy Award for "Best Male Country Vocal Performance" with it.
    The scenes are from the movies
    "The last honor of Kathryn Beck"- aka "Act of Passion" (1984) and
    "Blood and Orchids" (TV, 1986).
    Both movies are great to me and worth watching anyway, but only available on VHS tapes.
    ... The latter one is available on DVD now
    www.amazon.com/dp/B0035QHNVU
    Kris already began to write the song in 1968, in his Opel, on one of his endless rides from Nashville to the Gulf.
    "I began a song about making love to a woman for the last time. After a while the melody really got to me. I couldn't wait to get to a guitar. I was riding along thinking about that part where it says, 'Hear the whisper of the raindrops blowin' soft against the window,' and I wondered if I could play it. I wrote only the first part of the lyrics then. A while went before I finished it, I can't remember how long.... But I do remember who I wrote it about." Probably it was inspired by the dying days of his relationship to Fran...
    Now it's hard to believe that for a time some radio stations wouldn't play the original recording by Bill Nash because of its "overtly sexual content"; indeed for a brief time, Kris couldn't even find anyone who wanted to record the song... And then? A spokeman for Buckhorn Music, which published the song shortly before Kris switched to Combine Music, said later, "It's recorded by pretty much everyone who comes into town to do an album, Englebert Humperndinck, Dean Martin, Andy Williams, Chet Atkins, Loretta Lynn and many more."
    For the good times
    Don't look so sad, I know it's over
    But life goes on and this old world
    will keep on turning
    Let's just be glad we had some time
    to spend together
    There's no need to watch the bridges
    that we're burning
    Lay your head upon my pillow,
    hold your warm and tender body close to mine
    Hear the whisper of the raindrops
    blowin' soft against the window
    And make believe you love me one more time
    For the good times
    I'll get along, you'll find another
    And I'll be here if you should find
    you ever need me
    Don't say a word about tomorrow or forever
    There'll be time enough for sadness
    when you leave me
    Lay your head upon my pillow
    Hold your warm and tender body close to mine
    Hear the whisper of the raindrops
    Blowin' soft against my window
    Make believe you love me
    one more time
    For the good times
    For the good times (1968)
    Schau nicht so traurig, ich weiß, es ist vorbei.
    Aber das Leben geht weiter
    und diese alte Welt wird sich weiterdrehen.
    Lass uns einfach froh sein,
    dass wir einige Zeit zusammen verbringen konnten
    Wir müssen uns nicht die Brücken anschauen, die wir verbrennen.
    Leg deinen Kopf auf mein Kissen,
    halte deinen warmen und zärtlichen Körper
    dicht an meinen
    Hör das Flüstern der Regentropfen
    weich gegen das Fenster schlagen
    Und lass mich noch einmal glauben, dass du mich liebst -
    wegen der guten Zeiten
    Ich werd zurecht kommen,
    du wirst einen anderen finden.
    Und ich werde hier sein falls du je entscheidest, dass du mich brauchst.
    Sag kein Wort über das Morgen oder das Fürimmer.
    Es wird noch genug Zeit sein fürs Traurigsein
    wenn du mich verlässt...
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  • @lissablue176
    @lissablue176 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    My best friend and husband passed 6 months ago. We had such a great time together 5 months shy of 60 years married . We met in 1962, married in 1964. I miss him so 🩵💜

    • @janeokeeffe5297
      @janeokeeffe5297 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sorry for your loss ❤

    • @alchriyad
      @alchriyad 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ♥♥

    • @dougspidermanhappy
      @dougspidermanhappy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sorry for your loss 🤍

    • @SunshineSyzygy
      @SunshineSyzygy หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      sending love..this made me cry

  • @xine9997
    @xine9997 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    A beautiful version. There's nothing like the master singing his own masterpiece(s).

  • @thomasmcray8195
    @thomasmcray8195 3 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    One of the best songwriters of all time, hands down!👌

  • @davidtsmith33
    @davidtsmith33 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    Such a beautiful heartwarming song. They don't make them like this anymore. These gems never get old.

  • @peterlim6788
    @peterlim6788 3 ปีที่แล้ว +204

    I am 71 yrs old.... I couldnt stop tears flowing.... listening to the lyrics and the way this song is sung... just....so sad...so meaningful.

    • @garthmccolgan1735
      @garthmccolgan1735 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Hey Peter
      Garth here in Dublin.
      Great you feel it, 70 or whatever. The song is sad as bejaysus, no question.
      Better to have loved than lost though right?
      For a fella, to get with a woman like so, well, hell, that's something.
      Saw Kris live about every time he came to Ireland, momma was in love with him, don't tell daddy!
      All's I'm saying is smile in the presence of LOVE, gone or still present. X hugs from li'l ole Ireland

    • @dougraddi908
      @dougraddi908 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Stay young and live free my friend

    • @davematherly
      @davematherly 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      His Me and Bobby McGee does that to me.
      Sherry Ann Contreras was her name. Died way too young at 34.

    • @johnmergler1486
      @johnmergler1486 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I’m also 71 and brought back so many good feeling that I know I will never feel again I also got teary eyed it felt good

    • @loishill9064
      @loishill9064 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      HELLO DESR KRIS FANS. YOU
      AS I.ARE A TILL.MY BREATH LOVE
      ANYTHING HE SINGS BUT WHY.ME LORD LOVING HER WAS EASIER- -- 😢😓JUST. FIND ME SOMETHING BY MR.MUSIC AKA
      KRIS KRISTOFFERSON &. YOU HAVE A TILL.DEATH DO.US PART FAN.83 YEARS & STILL.LOVE THAT MAN.SINGING HIS SONGS.
      🏹🙏🏹✝️🏹🎶🎵💜🎶💜🎶💜

  • @biggestkkfan1506
    @biggestkkfan1506  12 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Not even Kris?!? You're kidding... To me this song is magic with Kris only... He knew the meaning of every single word in it.... he wrote it... on a lonesome drive from Nashville to the Gulf where he 'd fly a helicopter to the oil rigs. But that's my opinion...I just love his voice that can express so many emotions and much prefer to hear him sing every single song of him himself.

  • @francisalanwormald6328
    @francisalanwormald6328 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    A COMPOSER DOING HIS OWN WORK IS SO OFTEN A GEM...THIS BE ONE...

  • @gregoryprusak8378
    @gregoryprusak8378 6 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    If this isn't THE BEST song about breaking up, I don't know what is. The pain and yet triumph over pain all in one song. Deep and mature words.

    • @barrygroomes1620
      @barrygroomes1620 ปีที่แล้ว

      Billy Currington has the best brake up song.

    • @charliemcdermott8823
      @charliemcdermott8823 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      First cut is the deepest and you ought to know are up there too

  • @highplains7777
    @highplains7777 7 ปีที่แล้ว +205

    God didn't make me a genius, but at least He made me capable of recognizing and appreciating genius.

    • @audrey9664
      @audrey9664 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      dolly wrote this song

    • @audrey9664
      @audrey9664 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      I thought dolly wrote this

    • @ianbaillie6868
      @ianbaillie6868 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Wrong, written by Kris Kristofferson in 1968 and on his debut album.

    • @gregoryprusak8130
      @gregoryprusak8130 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +Dick Tracy...I admire your simple and direct honesty... wish more posters on TH-cam were like you too...and completely agree with your comment

    • @debbralesh3335
      @debbralesh3335 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dick Tr

  • @Jarnagua
    @Jarnagua ปีที่แล้ว +9

    My earliest memories were of laying beneath the piano as my father played. As I got older, I recognized he had bad habits in playing, and affectations that marred his music. He played with great panache, but seldom with great feeling. In his later years, he grew sicker and weaker in the mind and he began to not be able to play. He was giving up on life. He just wasn't meant to be an old man. He couldn't be weak or frail. It just wasn't him. Playing the piano now just made him frustrated because he couldn't execute anymore. One day he played a song I had never heard him play, - not in his repertoire which I knew backward and forwards - and all the affectations and bad habits were shed. It was just him playing not from his head but from his heart. It was the most beautiful I'd ever heard him play. Flawless and perfectly tempo'd., tender and warm and so real it sent shivers across my skin. He put whatever remaining life he possessed into that song. He finished and said quietly "For the Good Times." That was the last I ever heard him play. He died shortly after. My father was not an emotional man, nor was he nostalgic - but he played this song from memory, or ear, or from the ether, and played it perfectly, but more importantly it came straight from his soul in a way that I had never seen him allow - and it was power-ful. Somewhere along the line he heard this song, and it made a permanent impression upon him, long before I was born. This was what his version sounded like. I just wanted to share that story. Peace.

    • @biggestkkfan1506
      @biggestkkfan1506  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you for sharing this. And yes, this original version by Kris is just the most emotional version of his song. Maybe the one on the Austin Sessions even topped it. Have you ever heard that one?
      th-cam.com/video/oX094Nn4L_Y/w-d-xo.html

  • @red32_12
    @red32_12 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    my lifetime favorite song.
    must have played it hundred thousand times or more.
    thank you KK for the music.
    it will forever be my #1 song
    in my late 60's now and still listening to the song that I love since the 70's
    again. thank you very much.

  • @kennethlynch2907
    @kennethlynch2907 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    Don't look so sad
    I know it's over
    But life goes on
    And this old world will keep on turning
    Let's just be glad
    We had some time to spend together
    There's no need to watch the bridges
    That were burning
    Lay your head upon my pillow
    Hold your warm and tender body
    Close to mine
    Hear the whisper of the rain drops
    Blowing soft against the window
    And make believe you love me
    One more time
    For the good times
    I'll get along
    You'll find another
    And I'll be here
    If you should find you ever need me
    Don't say a word about tomorrow
    Or forever
    There'll be time enough for sadness
    When you leave me
    Lay your head upon my pillow
    Hold your warm and tender body
    Close to mine
    Hear the whisper of the rain drops
    Blowing soft against the window
    And make believe you love me
    One more time

  • @rbibbe34
    @rbibbe34 10 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    This song can make a 25 year old man tear up.Thanks Kris. I needed this.

    • @MrAshe68
      @MrAshe68 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      45, same thing.

    • @gregoryprusak8130
      @gregoryprusak8130 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      63 here and I've been known to sob at the sound of this song for too many years to count! That's the simple and devastating power of this song. It's really amazing. Cuts through the thick and goes straight to the heart.

    • @robhov188
      @robhov188 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Also can make a smarter, older guy glad he wasn’t stuck with her for life.

    • @josecanisales3491
      @josecanisales3491 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      75 years young and many memories.

    • @kriskristofferson3024
      @kriskristofferson3024 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks for your comment and supports, your comments and constant support has brought me this far. Keep Supporting ❤️ please send me a via.kriskristofferson6@gmail.com

  • @azizaheidros9853
    @azizaheidros9853 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    This was my late sister's favourite song. After she died, her husband missed her very much. So I sent him the song/lyrics of
    Kris Kristofferson's hit. I play this song whenever I remember her.

  • @riicalman164
    @riicalman164 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Wow! Kris can really sing. He sang this song with such passion. Gifted singer/song writer. His songs are worth gold.

  • @MrJimmorgan100
    @MrJimmorgan100 8 ปีที่แล้ว +91

    The saddest song ever written when he sings it.

  • @paulinecartwright6733
    @paulinecartwright6733 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    No one sings this song better, so beautiful.

  • @MrBee-jt3yd
    @MrBee-jt3yd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    I don't think there's a more beautiful love song than this

  • @lindaullo
    @lindaullo 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Too beautiful…. Yep. I bawl my eyes out too. At 76. The power of love.

  • @lightmyfire1450
    @lightmyfire1450 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Love Kris his voice talks to my soul ...God gift talent..one of the best song writers .

    • @GrahamByrne63
      @GrahamByrne63 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I agree a very talented songwriter who inspired me to write ✍🏻

  • @marinanavarro3175
    @marinanavarro3175 6 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Such tenderness, so nostalgic, haunting and evocative of pure and loving melody, sung by Kris, perfect!

    • @kriskristofferson8096
      @kriskristofferson8096 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hello Thanks for your comment and supports, your comments and constant support has brought this far. Keep Supporting ❤️
      Please send me a mail via.kristofferson2021@gmail.com..

    • @happybee4128
      @happybee4128 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Surely it is~!!

    • @johnhopkins4983
      @johnhopkins4983 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Very correct plus an Honorable Combat Veteran, 🎖

    • @willowwale2000
      @willowwale2000 ปีที่แล้ว

      WOW you whites are really different because Al Green's version is much better than this crap

    • @paulineslonim3391
      @paulineslonim3391 ปีที่แล้ว

      Almost too sad to listen to.

  • @unamckillen7125
    @unamckillen7125 9 ปีที่แล้ว +111

    This is a very tender love song; probably one of the best ever written. It is so evocative and conjures up that sadness when something that was lovely has to end. I think Kris Kristofferson sings it wonderfully.

    • @biggestkkfan1506
      @biggestkkfan1506  9 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      I think no-one can sing it in a better way than Kris does. I love his tender and manly voice. He sounds so really sad...

    • @beachbum12181
      @beachbum12181 9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      biggestkkfan but still sexy

    • @johnnylonewolf5474
      @johnnylonewolf5474 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      +biggestkkfan You're so right no one can Sing it Better, perhaps he Composed it the way he Felt it back then, Smile!.

    • @unamckillen7125
      @unamckillen7125 8 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      +Johnny Lonewolf I am going along with you both. He sings it like no-one else can and that includes his ex-wife. This version takes me right back to that post-grad, most lonely year in my universe. My college relationship had ended. How could I go on?

    • @user-kv3je2hw2m
      @user-kv3je2hw2m 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      좋은 시간..서로사랑하게하소서.

  • @pamleblanc3234
    @pamleblanc3234 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Kris has written more songs that many people have no idea he wrote. He’s a brilliant songwriter, singer, songwriter, actor and man. I’m so happy that he got sober and found God & he’s now happily married living his best life in Hawaii. Thank you Kris for many years of great music and movies. I’m 62 years old, I’ve been through it all with you. I’ve watched you stumble across a stage, slur your words but you kept going. You followed your heart. And your heart will never steer you wrong. God bless you man. Sending you hugs, love & prayers from your friends back in New Orleans, Louisiana! 🤗🤗❤️❤️🙏🙏

  • @jodonato3040
    @jodonato3040 9 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    His music is truly beautiful & evokes so much emotion. There is no one else like Kris!!

  • @cherylroberts6265
    @cherylroberts6265 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    This song brings back sooooooooooooooooo many memories, Kris. Thank you for singing and writing it.

  • @rdebnam
    @rdebnam 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    No! I am the biggest fan. He's also my favorite poet. His raw emotion hits every nerve...every time.

  • @gregoryprusak8378
    @gregoryprusak8378 4 ปีที่แล้ว +127

    Pretty sure here I ain't the only guy who loses it at lines like "there's no need to watch the bridges that we're burning" or "make believe you love me one more time".
    Also: A real man reveals his true strength when he allows his soft emotional side to show. Kris is just that - a real man. Hats off to Kris in crafting the best breakup song ever ...

    • @beyond1957
      @beyond1957 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I reckon so my friend.

    • @dougraddi908
      @dougraddi908 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You're not only guy. I feel what you're saying

    • @timothywelch4949
      @timothywelch4949 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So badass poetic. Just awesome fuckiing great!!

    • @vidhusingh2060
      @vidhusingh2060 ปีที่แล้ว

      Uffffffffffffff

  • @RickyAllen
    @RickyAllen 10 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    One of the best EVER period.. Topped the charts in almost every genre. Rock "me and Bobby Mgee" country "sunday morning coming down" "help me make it through the night" "for the good times" gospel "why Me Lord" and "one day at a time" even though he went into acting he was one of greatest songwriters ever

    • @guillermovillarreal4079
      @guillermovillarreal4079 ปีที่แล้ว

      One of on my very short list of things I did not do that I regret not doing, see him in concert.

    • @RickyAllen
      @RickyAllen ปีที่แล้ว

      @@guillermovillarreal4079 I bet man, but at least you got to live the same time and walk on the same earth as a walking song book

    • @mogensbohn8670
      @mogensbohn8670 ปีที่แล้ว

      You are quite right - those songs are my favorites too - can´t stop loving them I am 85 y

  • @dixieholzer8562
    @dixieholzer8562 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    At 74 this song bring back a lot of memories and makes me tear 😢💧
    Remembering all the good times from years ago.

  • @tomswinburn1778
    @tomswinburn1778 6 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Kristofferson was and is one of the all time great poet/songwriters. I don't think his voice ever came close to matching his writing, but so many recorded so much of his work that he's likely heard as much as anyone ever has been. From Johnny Cash to Janis Joplin to Willie Nelson his words are heard by hundreds of millions. Pretty elite company Kris resides in. Van Zandt is another whose words had a magical quality. Just words, but strung together in such a way as to capture feelings like few ever could.

  • @itspipexd4035
    @itspipexd4035 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Kris is a legend who listening in 2021 👍👍 his voice is top class make u listen to everyword

  • @newtonmenlo
    @newtonmenlo 9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I heard an interview with Kris K. on NPR about 15 years ago. Two things I remember he said. One was that if he lost all his money tomorrow, he would be a millionaire in a year from the royalties of just 4 songs, Bobby McGee, Sunday Mornin", Help Me Make It and this one. He also said that For The Good Times was the song he wanted played at his funeral.

  • @vivat_in_aeternum7721
    @vivat_in_aeternum7721 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    "And make believe you love me, one more time .... for the good times". One of the most beautiful lines of the 20th century

  • @effeldog
    @effeldog 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    He is the most handsome man ever xxx

    • @dogluvr3445
      @dogluvr3445 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ruggedly Handsome, the kind of guy you want to cuddle up with in a cabin in the woods next to the fireplace !

  • @jensj2
    @jensj2 10 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Anybody who got a song covered by Elvis made it for eternity...

    • @boanta7
      @boanta7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      True! King of music! 🙏❤️

  • @effeldog
    @effeldog 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    No matter how old he gets, Kris is still the best looking guy ever x love you Kris x

  • @kramsevarg
    @kramsevarg 7 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    he wrote it composed it and sang it with heart

    • @depaola63
      @depaola63 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The man has a BODY of wonderful , sad but beautiful tunes over a 50+ year career ! I never knew he wrote one of my favorite Sinatra tunes ..." Nobody Wins "..( from Ol' Blue Eyes is Back ")....*..+ this classic and so much more !! I am 55 today !! I remember Kris well and love his style as an Actor too ! GOD BLESS'

    • @martinfrits1348
      @martinfrits1348 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Dankie Kris. Jou kuns-talent inspireer..!

    • @louiseannemilligan811
      @louiseannemilligan811 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dean Martin wrote this song

    • @theformalpea4241
      @theformalpea4241 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@louiseannemilligan811 nope Kris wrote this in 1968.

  • @irenelove6948
    @irenelove6948 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I'm feeling nostalgic for my life in the 70's...and and I am crying 😢

    • @gabrielhumpal5418
      @gabrielhumpal5418 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh I'm sorry about that, but you should learn how to forget about the past and move on. living with the past won't take you know were

  • @laylac236
    @laylac236 8 ปีที่แล้ว +107

    I am a completely different generation but you cannot help but be amazed at this phenomenal talent-someone said a writer squeezes LIFE into words? That is what he does, he writes what people feel...

    • @unamckillen7125
      @unamckillen7125 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I can't deny what you are saying. This writer does that. We have all been there. Sometimes there is no alternative to moving on but this is done so gently. We will both live and love again but first: lets say goodbye for the last time and those good times.

    • @jimmckie8818
      @jimmckie8818 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The poet can say in 16 lines what it would take me fifty pages to say. He's a poet. He was also kicked soundly in the nuts by life a few times, he knows what he's singing about, he's experienced it.

    • @paulmcgillan4144
      @paulmcgillan4144 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Pure magic of the words put together by Krisstoffen, a god given gift straight from the throne room above. Thank you big daddy up there/

    • @kriskristofferson3024
      @kriskristofferson3024 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks for your comment and supports, your comments and constant support has brought me this far. Keep Supporting ❤️ please send me a via.kriskristofferson6@gmail.com

  • @beyond1957
    @beyond1957 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    There is a place in the mind somewhere between sadness and joy. Kris has the unique talent of expressing that place in his compositions, that is a exceptional gift for us all to experience.

    • @safeupstairs
      @safeupstairs 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      i agree. but i believe he didn't write this song. still, perfect rendition

    • @safeupstairs
      @safeupstairs ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@marg2431 you're absolutely right, my bad. thank you for the clarification. i assumed al green wrote the original🙈

  • @cathy012872
    @cathy012872 10 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    can't help but be sad...."Let's just be glad we had some time
    to spend together
    There's no need to watch the bridges
    that we're burning"

  • @carlesfarrespinos8983
    @carlesfarrespinos8983 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Kris is one of the greatest country song writers ever. Sometimes I think is not valued as he deserves. I love his songs.

    • @albertspungen7951
      @albertspungen7951 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      He definitely is not recognized for his great talent. Most of his songs were covered by others who made them famous, but to me, Kris does them best.

    • @carlesfarrespinos8983
      @carlesfarrespinos8983 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@albertspungen7951 I play a little bit the guitar, and this is one of my favorites to play. When young people ask me who's the autor, I say, the best country singer ever!
      Unfortunately, young people don't listen this kind of songs now, but when they have the oportunity, they like them a lot.

    • @nirmalasgabriel3050
      @nirmalasgabriel3050 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Agree with you Albert, I say that all the time, he sings his songs the best. Love the man

  • @AGraffitifan
    @AGraffitifan 7 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    Saw Kris two weeks ago in Annapolis in a venue of 150 seats. 81 years old and hasn't lost a step. Fantastic show. Did most of the songs from Silver Tongue Devil and I. He wrote every song that he sang. It was just him and his guitars(s) on stge. I cried through Jody and the Kid. He did this and I had never realized he had written it. The pedigree of this man is unbelievable.

    • @biggestkkfan1506
      @biggestkkfan1506  7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks for sharing this memory of you. 150 seats only, what a wonderfully intimate venue! Looking forward to seeing him in two concerts on July 1 and July 3.

    • @1953Bulldog
      @1953Bulldog 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      We saw him in Durant OK a few months ago. It was the best one man show I have ever seen.

    • @rmd8427
      @rmd8427 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Will be seeing him January 2019 in Spokane. What a poet he is...under-appreciated singer and under rated as a song writer

    • @Peaceonearthrn
      @Peaceonearthrn 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Just saw him Thursday night in PA. He is absolutely AMAZING and so is his band including Meryl Haggard's sons. Loved the drummer and the smiley violinist too!!

    • @sandracross3592
      @sandracross3592 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I saw him a few years in a small venue with just his guitar. I love Jody and the Kid too. After the show, I wondered out to the back of the building where his buses were. There were others waiting to get his autograph. I was fortunate that I was able to get his autograph and a hug. I almost swooned!

  • @luciabraithwaite3446
    @luciabraithwaite3446 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    At 85 we will soon be losing this talented and high achieving man - so glad I was part of that era.

  • @timpowers8099
    @timpowers8099 6 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    "make believe you love me one more time" are the saddest words i've ever heard

    • @AubMar
      @AubMar ปีที่แล้ว

      yeah, these are!

  • @ceceliamccuiston3477
    @ceceliamccuiston3477 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Kris touches my hear & soul in every song he sings!

  • @cliffordhamm6700
    @cliffordhamm6700 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    The Ray Price cover was my mother's favorite song. Daddy and I would make fun of it, but now I wish we hadn't.

  • @jodyfaygo7161
    @jodyfaygo7161 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    When my grandmother (Gram) passed had to play this in a Catholic church ( her belief) on stereo.She spoke to me while I was the only one who cleaned her house out,and gave away most everything to less fortunate in back of her place.Love u Gram ! You are my legend!

    • @kriskristofferson8096
      @kriskristofferson8096 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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  • @brenkelly1474
    @brenkelly1474 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    What a gift to the world

  • @RickyAllen
    @RickyAllen 10 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    "There's no need to watch the bridges that we're burning" It’s awesome getting to listen to a walking song book.. “I’ll get along, you’ll find another “

    • @mogensbohn8670
      @mogensbohn8670 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's true to the bone

    • @RickyAllen
      @RickyAllen ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mogensbohn8670 such a strong line too

    • @mogensbohn8670
      @mogensbohn8670 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@RickyAllen yes I love that song

  • @chabacko
    @chabacko 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    funeral song of my grandfather who was like a father to me. keep listening to it everytime im drunk and start crying

    • @jackiedonnelly4230
      @jackiedonnelly4230 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Omg,im the same. Adore this song so much. Makes me cry too. It's so real,& so emotional! The tears are rolling down my cheeks as i type this!

    • @scottweindegher
      @scottweindegher 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Stop it. I'm crying too 😭

  • @pam5583
    @pam5583 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    ❤great song

  • @timing134
    @timing134 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    My favorite version of this song is this one. The way the string section blends in perfectly with Kris voice. Just beautiful.

    • @biggestkkfan1506
      @biggestkkfan1506  ปีที่แล้ว

      it definately is... Though his version on the 1999 album The Austin Sessions is really beautiful too. As each song on that album it is so beautifully done. I added that version to another video.
      th-cam.com/video/oX094Nn4L_Y/w-d-xo.html

    • @xine9997
      @xine9997 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      His voice is beautiful here, the expressive nuances perfectly matching the words

  • @thedavesiknow4598
    @thedavesiknow4598 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Good-bye ol' house.
    Thanks for all the good memories.
    The bad ones too.
    I've grown a lot and watched my babies grow.
    I hope that more love fills this house as the years go on.
    I'll check in from time to time from afar.
    I love you.💚
    For the good times🌻

    • @randygriffin7973
      @randygriffin7973 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      😢❤😢.. SIGH ❤😢❤.. OOOOHH...

  • @michaelwalker2676
    @michaelwalker2676 7 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Haunting and beautiful love song. There is something unique about Kris' deep voice.

  • @viralfire
    @viralfire 8 ปีที่แล้ว +159

    The greatest break-up song ever written.

    • @unamckillen7125
      @unamckillen7125 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I think so too. It is why I kept coming back to it over the years (I had more than my fair share of break-ups!) The words and melody are so melancholic but gorgeous too. They say it all.

    • @brysonfuller7719
      @brysonfuller7719 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      viralfire I think it absolutely fits in there with Dylan’s Blood On The Tracks as the most heart felt music regarding loss.

    • @JoePublicEnemyNo1
      @JoePublicEnemyNo1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't know, Dylan's It Ain't Me Babe is pretty awesome.

    • @unamckillen7125
      @unamckillen7125 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JoePublicEnemyNo1 That isn't break up. It is telling you, in no uncertain terms, that that person is not going to support you in anything you say or do unless you agree with every one of his ideological certainties.

    • @lux54
      @lux54 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      With ' The winner takes It all...

  • @joshedens6866
    @joshedens6866 8 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    Brings me back to a time nobody else can, or will, ever know about.

    • @janetredway6822
      @janetredway6822 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I had a time like that...

    • @heatherjones1489
      @heatherjones1489 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      So have I........,it's a beautiful ,evocative ballad, I never tire of hearing this song.......:)

    • @maryannmorgan6464
      @maryannmorgan6464 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I also had a time like that and thankfully I'm on the road to recovery. Noone but yourself will ever know the feeling.

    • @jandeband
      @jandeband 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      been ther

    • @sandraziebro9444
      @sandraziebro9444 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      For me; bittersweet

  • @drdwgmd14
    @drdwgmd14 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Unbelievably great song....I am 28, a millenial, this apng is so true for me this year. Thank you Kris

  • @williesmith8193
    @williesmith8193 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    What a sad song... But one of the greatest by Kris

  • @auntpittypat1
    @auntpittypat1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Discovered Kris in 1970. Still on love with him.

    • @mogensbohn8670
      @mogensbohn8670 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      me too since 1976

    • @marinawalker5745
      @marinawalker5745 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So am I. It will be a very sad day when he leaves this world ❤

  • @hemmay
    @hemmay 9 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Best version of his song.Very poignant and soulful.Not the best voice ever but the best for this song.

  • @TheBlackFenceCat
    @TheBlackFenceCat 5 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    Brilliant. Kristofferson hits the soul perfectly. What a song.

  • @oungkarmaharaj5860
    @oungkarmaharaj5860 8 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    One of those singers, whose songs flow through your body.

  • @danslaruebroca2423
    @danslaruebroca2423 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Listening to this singing poem in 2019, still...

  • @spots35
    @spots35 8 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    Magnificent. Such a touching love song. So well done Kris.

    • @rickeke1942
      @rickeke1942 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I start to cry whenever I hear Kris sing this song. His perfect voice for this song really gets me. The "Last Post' of C&W songs.

  • @arlenkalifuentes
    @arlenkalifuentes 10 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Songs are loved not necessarily because it brings memories; for there are songs that we simply loved even at the time when it first touches us, when there was no memory.

    • @biggestkkfan1506
      @biggestkkfan1506  10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I agree :-)

    • @unamckillen7125
      @unamckillen7125 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Arlen Kali Fuentes Yes, certain songs can be loved and remembered for qualities outside our own experiences at the time we first heard them. This type of song takes on different meanings as we go through life.

    • @johannabell6694
      @johannabell6694 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Arlen Kali Fuentes , i

  • @timflowers9709
    @timflowers9709 8 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    nobody does it better than Kis

  • @codybolt4542
    @codybolt4542 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Ray Price's version had impeccable phrasing and orchestration. Elvis's version was too... Elvis.
    Kris's version is unfiltered, showing exactly what he, as the songwriter, was feeling when he wrote it.
    In other words... Damn!

    • @nirmalasgabriel3050
      @nirmalasgabriel3050 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Best version in my opinion.

    • @susiekwong3814
      @susiekwong3814 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mlml

    • @nirmalasgabriel3050
      @nirmalasgabriel3050 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nailed it Cody

    • @fatjec
      @fatjec 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ray's version is the best. Kris is a better writer than he is a singer.

    • @itguy5820
      @itguy5820 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@nirmalasgabriel3050 Al Green

  • @vent2914
    @vent2914 9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    One of my favourites. Kris is sometimes is a stranger for lot of people but I really think he is a great representative of country music. Love his music in general and this song specially. Love you Kris !

  • @user-us9hy7tt3m
    @user-us9hy7tt3m 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    He saved my life in 1972-was. Going through a divorce... just kept listening to his music 🎵🎵🎶 and seeing him in concerts ❤❤❤❤
    Love your music!

  • @che4568
    @che4568 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The list of singers who have covered this song tells you how brilliant it is. 👌

  • @pamweaver5823
    @pamweaver5823 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I’ve been crazy about him since I was 14-saw him last night in Athens, GA. He was awesome-basking in his soulful words today. He does speak to my soul.❤️

    • @TheGran8
      @TheGran8 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I am going to see him at Gateshead, North East of England in June. I can't wait.

    • @kriskristofferson8096
      @kriskristofferson8096 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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    • @Fredjohnson2920
      @Fredjohnson2920 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hello Pam, how are you doing??

  • @gabrieleb.5458
    @gabrieleb.5458 9 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    I think this is the best version from Kris krostofferson ! love this song so much

    • @georgechism5888
      @georgechism5888 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ray Price

    • @stempo1
      @stempo1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Ray price version seems forced, Kris Kristofferson lived this and the other songs he wrote.

    • @kriskristofferson8096
      @kriskristofferson8096 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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    • @nirmalasgabriel3050
      @nirmalasgabriel3050 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Totally agree, best version in my opinion.

    • @nirmalasgabriel3050
      @nirmalasgabriel3050 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Just curious, is it really Kris responding with his email addresss?

  • @maryannnye3741
    @maryannnye3741 10 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    have loved Kris since I was 16. Wish there was more. I'm 60 now. He's my guy!

    • @AhmedSalah-dr1lv
      @AhmedSalah-dr1lv 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      OMG😭😢 this life , all your memories all ur life , I feel ur feelings

    • @kriskristofferson8096
      @kriskristofferson8096 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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  • @elviraberry2942
    @elviraberry2942 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    He sounds so young in this 70s song. Yes, young. I was too, back then, starting a new life in the US. Rest in Peace, Kris Kristofferson.

    • @MrGarbhead
      @MrGarbhead 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      He's not dead.

  • @joannahavnerfarrington5994
    @joannahavnerfarrington5994 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I will always remember these times and I pray some day you do too.
    Great LOVE is never buried or forgotten. Someday in a another place or another time perhaps. I am truly sorry it wasnt forever in this place or time for you. I hope you find what your searching for. May God watch over you always.

    • @kriskristofferson8096
      @kriskristofferson8096 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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    • @derekkess4103
      @derekkess4103 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I sure do miss the 70s , 80s and 90s. The music🎷today is not even the same. Sometimes I wish I could find a time machine and go back in time. Life was much easier and everyone enjoyed life! Is this your favorite song?

    • @Fredjohnson2920
      @Fredjohnson2920 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hello Joanna, are you doing??

  • @loishill9064
    @loishill9064 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    HAVE LOVE ALL OF THE MASTER OF BEAUTIFUL KRIS'S SONGS SINCE I WENT TO. CONCERT.IN THE EARLY 70'S.MY SOUL MATE PASSED 2016.WE HAD EVERY CD.& ONE STILL IN WRAPS FOR EMERGENCYS.WE LOVE TO.LISTEN ON EVERY TRIP WHILE WE WERE TRAVELING FROM PLACE TO PLACE. NEVER GOT TIIRED OF DEAR HEART TO HEART MUSIC KRIS SONGS.HE JUST MAKES YOU.THERE WITH HIM.MAY THE LORD BLESS HIM.&.HIS FAMILY.HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIR KRIS❤🎸 KRISTOFFERSON ON JUNE 22.
    YOUR FAN.FOR EVER &. EVER.
    LOIS HILL 🏹💜🏹🙏🏹✝️🏹💜l

  • @Helga_Woell
    @Helga_Woell 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    sad sad song, wonderful sung by Kris Kristofferson, 😢😢😢

  • @pansypatch7378
    @pansypatch7378 9 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    so charming, so talented, and such an icon - there's only one K.K.

    • @ilenearmstrong9480
      @ilenearmstrong9480 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      it makes me sick to hear Ray Price attempt to sing this beautiful song

    • @AGraffitifan
      @AGraffitifan 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Saw him recently in Annapolis. At 82 he still has it going on!!! I cried when he sang Jodie and the Kid.

  • @granthope4135
    @granthope4135 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    What an artist. A true artist eloquently induces his feelings into the listener with his voice and way of words while writing. Such beautifully sung and written ART portrayed by one of the greatest song writers ever! It’s quite wild I’ve never listened to him other than in the “highwayman” my focus of beautiful music will include this man here until I pass!

  • @willsully1303
    @willsully1303 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    amazing talented singer songwriter beautiful voice thanks for all your amazing music kris

  • @ilenearmstrong9480
    @ilenearmstrong9480 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Kris sings with such soul and passion just one of the reasons I love him so much I guess he wrote those amazing songs and knows how to sing them

    • @helencaird4779
      @helencaird4779 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I agree, nobody can put the right emotion into his songs like he can, Kris is a very humble man, with great gifts he has shared with all his fans.

  • @freddyodonohoe2644
    @freddyodonohoe2644 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    One of Kris best ever songs 👌👍🍀 brilliant voice takes you into the words

  • @jhnsnclff
    @jhnsnclff 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    One of the greatest storytellers

  • @xine9997
    @xine9997 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    So many people have recorded this but there's something particularly beautiful about his own renditions

  • @CustomerServices-ri5mr
    @CustomerServices-ri5mr 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I really loved it tell my whole life

  • @biggestkkfan1506
    @biggestkkfan1506  11 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    What can be bad about this song for Kris???
    It was Kris' first No 1 country hit as a writer in 1970
    It was "Song of the Year" (and "Single Record of the Year") of the Academy of Country Music in 1970 -
    It was the first time a writer won "Song of the Year" awards from both the Country Music Association - with "Sunday Mornin' comin' down"- AND the Academy of Country Music for different songs in the same year...

    • @fredkelly4649
      @fredkelly4649 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks adds to what i know about Kris.

  • @nirmalasgabriel3050
    @nirmalasgabriel3050 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Only accolade missing is the Kennedy award, sure pray he gets it while he is still with us.

  • @davefk
    @davefk 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What a beautiful melancholic voice. I was 13 when I first heard this in 1970.

  • @cindychristie6314
    @cindychristie6314 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    love this song, exactly how it was! ❤

  • @julieadam7425
    @julieadam7425 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The Best!! ❤ Love this song since a teenager and the lyrics are awesome! ❤️🎵❤️🎧

  • @veraperinova7297
    @veraperinova7297 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    beautiful song ... I wish you many more good times, Kris.......

  • @carolkyllnen4858
    @carolkyllnen4858 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I wouldn't be able to breakup with him if I was sung this song.

    • @xine9997
      @xine9997 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Too true.

  • @knowzmyname
    @knowzmyname 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Kris could always make sad sound so beautiful !

  • @Gatamona1945
    @Gatamona1945 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    He's so talented as a writer .. His lyrics are bar none one of the finest in our generation! Poignant truthful sexy .... He's a Rhodes Scholar as well ! Breaking it down? He's a genius! And one fine lookin dude even now! Lol

  • @arsimard
    @arsimard 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Very beautiful.
    I love the man and his music.

  • @boobieneedham8873
    @boobieneedham8873 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Happy 79th B-day Mr. Kristofferson... LUV' YA!

    • @user-lx9nv8dm7s
      @user-lx9nv8dm7s 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      듣고 들어도 또 듣고십은 명곡 중에명곡 입니다

  • @gillhargrove6807
    @gillhargrove6807 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Beautiful

  • @barrygroomes1620
    @barrygroomes1620 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I went to the 50 year celebration of Tootsies in Nashville TN. Kris did many of his songs as the main guest of Steve's the owner. It was a wonderful show and I was so fortunate to score tickets from Steve.

    • @biggestkkfan1506
      @biggestkkfan1506  ปีที่แล้ว

      when was that?

    • @barrygroomes1620
      @barrygroomes1620 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@biggestkkfan1506 2010 I believe. I'd have to find the pics. On an old phone. We did so much in the 14 years we were there its hard to keep track.

  • @lutevink7535
    @lutevink7535 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Love this man's songs!♡♡😊