The Man Comes Around (song)

"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]

"The Man Comes Around"
Song by Johnny Cash
from American IV: The Man Comes Around"
Released2002
Recorded4:26
GenreCountry, Americana, folk
LabelAmerican Recordings / Universal
Songwriter(s)Johnny Cash

References

  1. Brinkley, T (Oct 15, 2006), "Walking the Line", The New York times (review), one of his last original compositions.
  2. 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.