Jako syn generálmajora amerického letectva vyrůstal na různých vojenských základnách v Texasu a Kalifornii. Od dětství byl obdivovatelem hudby country (Hank Williams, Woody Guthrie) a v jedenácti letech složil první písně. Navštěvoval Pomona...

Píseň: Hero

Interpret:
Kris Kristofferson
Album:
Third World Warrior
Don't you like to see the hero take his licks like a man
 Stand up and be tested and be true ?
 Would you like to be a hero in your life ? Well you can
 Did you know it's up to you ?


 Would you trade your place with Jesus on the cross if you could
 Shining through eternity ?
 Would it bother you to know that you can be just as good
 As you really want to be ?


 And if you're bound to do your duty then it's time that you do
 Look your future in the face
 For the most important person in the world, which is you,
 Or the whole damn human race


 There's a holy band of angels flying high through the night
 Where no mortal ever trod
 Singing holy, holy, holy, holy, oh, Jesus Christ
 Is the Lord Almighty God


 You see, the good thing is you don't have to be as good as Jesus to 
 start out with
 All you gotta do ask yourself, how would Gary Cooper have done it
 Or John Kennedy
 Or Martin Luther King
 Or Malcom X ?


 There's a holy band of angels flying high through the night
 Where no mortal ever trod
 Singing holy, holy, holy, holy, oh, Jesus Christ
 Is the Lord Almighty God