Johnny Cash sings "Bird on a Wire" on Jon Stewart's old show

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Uploaded by on Mar 8, 2009

A still-wet-behind-his-ears Jon Stewart welcomes The Man in Black to his short-lived 90s chat show to sing Leonard Cohen's immortal Bird On A Wire.

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  • @arbagle: Thank you, man, thank you very much for posting this video! It is... like heaven's speaking to you. Every time I watch it... I look into these great old man's eyes, and I would have like talked to him so much. So much more than show biz. That is life.

  • @dawilde70 I think a lot of here know just what you mean. Cash was a man greater than the sum of his parts.

  • Thank you so much for posting this! I was actually at this performance! Won't forget meeting him and June Carter Cash after the show!

  • @djdavespins JEALOUS!!!

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  • Wow, Johnny Cash covering Leonard Cohen, and on the Jon Stewart Show?!?! This is simply amazing...

  • Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, and Jon Stewart all in one. My prayers have been answered.

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  • When I lost Johnny Cash I didn't leave my room for at least 3 days. That was the loneliest time of my life; the heroin didn't stop the pain. No one around me even know who I was crying about.

  • My soul can't come up with the words as to how touched it is by this song.

  • A guy with an average voice, and a piece of wood, with some strings. How can he create so much feeling with just that? He plucks the string at about 3:30, and it creates such a dramatic pause. Very cool

  • Excellent!!! Many many thanks.- Fernando

  • So sparse yet so full, voice is aged but yet still powerful, so simple its is complex and layered with emotions, so fragile yet so forcefull. There will only ever be one man who could deliver that with so much grace, and that was Jonny Cash.

  • I feel like the word "legend' gets thrown around too much these days with all the blogs and online sites... This man is a true LEGEND.

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