Don Gibson The Last Letter

I hate this song. It's so very depressing and one that makes you think about putting your head in the gas oven. Don wrings every drop of emotion from this song which is about suicide and because of the tortured life Don sometimes led, who better to sing this song?

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[tickyreal]

!!!!

[lolamaygoodman]

VERY GOOD SONG AND A GREAT SINGER

[Skeety7]

I think maybe he sang as he felt. No one could sing a sad song like him.

[MrWeedpatch]

well you can say what you want but Don was the king of country soul and he wrote a lot of sad songs that became great hits......I've been around 72 years and playing in cover bands since I was 17 and have not seen the likes of his talent.........

[vrghiks]

Don't ever be led astray by a message in a secular song.

[ArkRed1]

Supposedly Rex Griffin got the idea from a suicide note he read in a newspaper article. Great song that still gives me goosebumps. Soooooooo sad, but such great writing.

[cliffworks4321]

Gibson was hopelessly shy all through life, defensive about his appearance -- to the point where, as a boy or a young man, he would avoid walking into places that were too crowded -- and also about his voice, which was characterized by a very bad stutter while he was growing up.

[cliffworks4321]

@tsanford3 I spent my life playing with top groups Ambrosia, The Association, alto sax legend Art Pepper, blues man John Lee Hooker and tons of others, was not just a bystander.

[tsanford3]

@cliffworks4321 No I dont think so he was a man the same as you and I. To where are outlet is listening to great music his was creating it..so I think.

[ThomasASwilling]

@oregondennis Record it and upload it--the Tennessee Ernie Ford recording of "The Last Letter", that is. My dad used to sing this now and then, and I play it, but so far I haven't found the version from which Dad learned it. Tennessee Ernie Ford's recording may have been it, since he liked Ernie Ford.