I like Willie Nelson's version because of his ability to hold the note:

"And if I have ever been unkiiiiiiind. . ."

Cash doesn't handle it as well, but I'm just grateful that he recorded it. I wish that all Willie and Johnny fans could get turned onto LC!

I think the first time a heard LC's name was in 1993, when he was cited by Kurt Cobain as a major influence. " give me a leonard cohen afterworld, where I can sigh eternally" -Pennyroyal Tea so I got the "Best Of" CD in a trade and it changed me at my core. "Bird on the Wire...