The Man Comes Around

"The Man Comes Around"
Song by Johnny Cash
from the album American IV: The Man Comes Around
ReleasedMay 24, 2002
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Length4:26
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Songwriter(s)Johnny Cash
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Johnny Cash singles chronology
"Rusty Cage"
(1996)
"The Man Comes Around"
(2002)
"Personal Jesus"
(2002)

"The Man Comes Around" is the title track from Johnny Cash's American IV: The Man Comes Around, released in 2002. It was written several years prior to the release of the album; however, Cash updated it for the album. It is one of the last songs Cash wrote before his death. Both sung and spoken, the song makes numerous Biblical references, especially to the Book of Revelation.