“No Letter in the Mail”
Description
Singer hasn't received an answer to his love-letter. He has written that he was wrong and to blame, and that he loves her truly. He walks down the road, saying if he doesn't get a letter in the mail, he'll "bid this world goodbye"
Cross references
- cf. "The Letter that Never Came" (theme)
Recordings
- Roy Acuff, "No Letter in the Mail" (Conqueror 9810, 1941/OKeh 06585, 1942)
- Happy-Go-Lucky Boys, "No Letter in the Mail Today" (Bluebird B-8467, 1940)
- Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, "No Letter in the Mail" (Bluebird B-8611, 1941)
- Martin Young & Corbett Grigsby, "No Letter in the Mail" (on MMOK, MMOKCD)
References
- Roud #11577
- BI, RcNLITM