From a thread started by Angela Page in 2006.
[postal letters]
David Kleiner\ Hopeless Romantic\ This Human Heart
John Flynn's "Two Letters" on his self-titled cd
Peter Jones\ Kilkelly Ireland
(also sung by Robbie O'Connell, Robert and Peter Blake, Colcannon)
Harry Tuft\ Last Letter Home\ For All the Good People (VA)
Amazing Rhythm Aces\ Last Letter Home\ Toucan Do It Too
(also Gibson Bros. and Burrito Deluxe)
Ernest Tubb\ Soldier's Last Letter
Patty Larkin\ The Letter (Boxtops song)
Alan Sherman\ Hello Muddah Hello Faddah
Sparky and Rhonda Rucker "Death Letter Blues on Treasures and Tears
Peter, Paul and Mary\ The Deserter\ In Concert
John Prine\ Dear Abby
Pete Seeger or Malvina Reynolds\ Mrs. Clara Sullivan's Letters
Hazel Dickens\ Clara Sullivan's Letter\ Coal Mining Women (VA)
Michael Troy['s "Dear Walter"
"The Sick Note" ("Why Paddy's Not At Work Today")
Anais Mitchell's "I Wear Your Dress"
A bit hypothetical, but there's Dar Williams' "If I Wrote You"
Dylan's "Dear Landlord"
Bob Blue's "Dear Mr. President"
Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie\ Dear Mr. President
Jenn Cass\ Dear Mr. President
Bob Miller and Barney Burnett\ Farmer's Letter to the President
Woody Guthrie\ Dear Mrs. Roosevelt
(also sung by Bob Dylan on Tribute to Woody Guthrie)
Bill Morrissey's "Letter from Heaven"
Joe Ely\ Letter to Loredo
Karla Bonoff\ The Letter
Greg Brown\ Spring Wind
Jennifer Kimball\ Don't Take Your Love Away
Bob Zentz\ Hey Dave\ Beaucather Farewell
"Dear Elinor" by Janne Henshaw
"Sullivan Ballou's Last Letter Home" by Alien Folklife
Andrew Mcknight's cd, Turning Pages, has: Dear Diary and Letter to Colonel Mosby
"Love Please Come Home" (a great old bluegrass song)
Kieran Kane, Kevin Welch & Fats Kaplin: Postcard from Mexico (Lost John Dean)
Trout Fishing in America: Aberta Postcard (Closer to The Truth)
Red Clay Ramblers\ The Hobo's Last Letter\ Twisted Laurel
Famous Blue Raincoat by Leonard Cohen (also Judy Collins and Jennifer Warnes)
"The Letter (That Johnny Walker Read)" - Asleep at the Wheel
"Anchorage" - Michelle Shocked
"A Letter From a Lonely Mennonite" by the Rev. Billy C. Wirtz on Backsliders Tractor Pull
Snowin' in Brooklyn by Ferron
Altoona Waltz by Michael Smith
Letter To Jesus by Mimi Farina & Tom Jans
Anna Olsen's Letter Home by Tom Russell
"Sacco's Letter to his Son" done by Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Magpie
"Report from Grimes Creek After a Hard Winter" by Rosalie Sorrells
[xmas]
Berrymans' Christmas Letter
Trout Fishing in America: The Christmas Letter (Merry Fishes to All), Trout
Christmas Card from a Hooker in Los Angeles by Tom Waits
[postcards]
Nancy K. Dillon\ Almost to Idaho\ Just Let Me Dream
Love City (Postcards to Duluth) by Noel Paul Stookey, on PP&M's Late Again
Dayna Kurtz: Postcards from Downtown
[alphabet letters]
Jimmy Rodgers "T is for Texas"
Fairport Convention\ The Sailor's Alphabet\ Babbacombe Lee
Songs of the Michigan Lumberjacks\ The Lumberman's Alphabet
Riders in the Sky?\ Cowboy's Alphabet
"S-A-V-E-D", recorded by Paul & Win Grace and others.
"M-O-T-H-E-R", not recorded recently but endlessly parodied.
"C-H-I-C-K-E-N", recorded by Mississippi John Hurt and also Paul & Win Grace.
Peter Ostroushko's "B-O-R-S-C-H-T" (on old LP)
"Type A" by John Forester
"D-I-V-O-R-C-E" by Tammy Wynette
"Divorce Me COD" Merle Travis
Spelling Bee Romance by Darrell Scott
M-O-N-E-Y by Lyle Lovett
Additional song suggestions? Email Richard Gillmann
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