LAST LETTER, THE
(Rex Griffin 1937)

Recorded by -
Rex Griffin 1937
Jimmie Davis w Charles Mitchell & his Texans 1939
Montana Slim 1941
Yodelling Slim Clark 1948
Billy Brown 1960
Tommy Collins 1960
Don Gibson 1961
Ramblin' Jack Elliott 1961
Don Gibson 1961
Hawkshaw Hawkins 1963
Willie Nelson 1963
Ernest Tubb 1963
The Texas Troubadours 1964
Leroy Van Dyke 1964
Chet Atkins 1965
Ray Price 1965
Asher Sizemore & Little Jimmie 1966
Ronny & The Daytonas 1967
Connie Smith 1967
Dottie West 1967
Glen Campbell 1968
Jack Greene 1968
George Hamilton IV 1968
Marty Robbins 1968
Jerry Wallace 1969
The Anita Kerr Singers 1970
George Jones 1972
Asleep At The Wheel 1974
Waylon Jennings 1976
Country Gazette 1977
Merle Haggard 1977
Beverley King 1977
Charley McCoy 1977
James O'Gwynn 1978
Roy Drusky 1982
Vernon Oxford 1982
Rosalie Sorrels 1982
Paul Martin 1983







as recorded by Roy Drusky

Why do you treat me as if I were only a friend?
What have I done that has made you so different and cold
Sometimes I wonder if you'll be contented again
After you go and you read this last letter from me!

I cannot offer you diamonds and mansions so fine,
I cannot offer you things that your young body craves,
But if you'll promise forever that you will be mine,
Think of the heartaches, the sorrow and teardrops you'll save!

While I am writing this letter I think of the past,
And of the promises that you are breaking so free.
Soon I'll be saying my farewell to this world at last,
I will be gone when you read this last letter from me!





(Transcribed by Peter Akers - May 2019)