<P> `` I Hung My Head '' is a song written by the singer - songwriter Sting and released on the 1996 album Mercury Falling . It reflects Sting 's childhood fondness for TV Westerns , as well as his avowed interest in Country music , but also tackles deeper and more philosophical themes of life and death , justice and redemption . In 2002 , Johnny Cash covered the song in the album American IV : The Man Comes Around . Sting re-recorded the song in an orchestral version for his 2010 album Symphonicities . </P>
<P> `` I Hung My Head '' is a song written by the singer - songwriter Sting and released on the 1996 album Mercury Falling . It reflects Sting 's childhood fondness for TV Westerns , as well as his avowed interest in Country music , but also tackles deeper and more philosophical themes of life and death , justice and redemption . In 2002 , Johnny Cash covered the song in the album American IV : The Man Comes Around . Sting re-recorded the song in an orchestral version for his 2010 album Symphonicities . </P>
who wrote the song i hung my head
who wrote the song i hung my head
Sting
Sting