Last Letter Lyrics - Roy Acuff

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 

Will you be happy when you are withered and old? 

I cannot offer you diamonds or mansions so fine 

I cannot offer you the clothes that your young body crave 

But if you'll say that you long to forever be mine 

Think of the heartache the tears and the sorrow you'll save 

When you grow weary and tired of another one's gold 

When you are weary, remember this letter, my own 

Don't try to answer though I've suffered anguish untold 

If you don't love me, I wish you would leave me alone 

While I am writing this letter I think of the past 

And of the promises that you are breaking so free 

But from this world I shall soon say my farewell at last 

I will be gone when you read this last letter from me