50 Best Country Songs About Writing Letters
Country Songs on Writing Letters
There’s a certain kind of pause that comes when you sit down with a pen and paper, staring at a blank page that feels heavier than it should. Writing a letter pulls a feeling out of you in a way texting never can. The scratch of ink, the space between words, the way you fold it up and send it off without knowing how it’ll land. Country music has lived in that space for decades. Some tracks talk about actual letters, others feel like letters you never wrote, the ones that stayed in your head because saying them out loud was too much. Even a few pop, rock, country, and R&B songs slip into this mix when they hit that same raw nerve.
The best ones don’t clean up the mess. They capture the wait by the mailbox or the regret that comes when you read a reply you wish you hadn’t opened. Sometimes they’re sweet, the kind of thing someone sends home when they’re far away and aching for a voice they miss. Other times they’re bitter, like a final note left on the kitchen table before a door slams for the last time. These tracks live in that strange middle space where words feel both powerful and useless, where silence has weight but speaking up feels even heavier.
Not every song on this list spells it out with ink and paper, but they carry that same letter-writing energy. They tell stories that feel like confessions, goodbyes, or pleas folded up and sealed tight. These are the country songs that take that quiet act of reaching out and blow it wide open through melody and verse.
Top 10 Country Songs About Letters
1. 'Letters from Home' by John Michael Montgomery
2. 'A Dear John Letter' by Ferlin Husky and Jean Shepard
3. 'A Soldier's Last Letter' by Ernest Tubb
4. 'The Letter' by Don Williams
5. 'Love Letters' by Miranda Lambert
6. 'Letter to Me' by Brad Paisley
7. 'Please Mr. Postman' by The Carpenters
8. 'Dear Mom' by Charlie Daniels
9. 'Written in the Sand' by Old Dominion
10. 'The Letter' by Chevel Shepherd
Country Songs About Correspondence and Messages #11 to 20
11. 'Paperback Writer' by The Beatles
12. 'Soldier's Letter' by Merle Haggard
13. 'Message in a Bottle' by The Police
14. 'Please Read the Letter' by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
15. 'Dear Abby' by John Prine
16. 'The Letter That Johnny Walker Read' by Asleep at the Wheel
17. 'Take a Letter Maria' by R.B. Greaves
18. 'Strawberry Letter 23' by The Brothers Johnson
19. 'Send Me a Letter' by The Delmore Brothers
20. 'Love Letters in the Sand' by Pat Boone
More Country Songs on the Theme of Letters #21 to 30
21. 'A Letter to Elise' by The Cure
22. 'P.S. I Love You' by The Beatles
23. 'Letters to a Young Girl' by Bill Anderson
24. 'An Open Letter to My Best Friend' by Brad Paisley
25. 'Last Letter' by The Oak Ridge Boys
26. 'I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter' by Fats Waller
27. 'The Love Letter' by Mel McDaniel
28. 'Last Letter Home' by Jason Aldean
29. 'Three Wonderful Letters From Home' by Jerry Lee Lewis
30. 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' by George Jones
Country Songs About Written Messages and Notes #31 to 40
31. 'Letter Never Sent' by R.E.M.
32. 'A Letter to Heaven' by Billy Ray Cyrus
33. 'Letter to Loretta' by Conway Twitty
34. 'The Letter' by Jimmy Wayne
35. 'The Letter' by The Box Tops
36. 'A Letter From My Dad' by Dolly Parton
37. 'Letter from an Old Friend' by Ray Charles
38. 'A Letter to a Soldier' by Alan Jackson
39. 'Letter to the Lord' by Hank Williams Jr.
40. 'The Letter' by Loretta Lynn
More Country Songs About Writing and Letters #41 to 50
41. 'A Letter to the Beatles' by The Four Preps
42. 'Please Take a Letter Miss Brown' by The Ink Spots
43. 'Letters to the President' by George Strait
44. 'Love Letter' by Taylor Swift
45. 'Letter from a Thief' by Johnny Paycheck
46. 'Last Letter to a Friend' by Dwight Yoakam
47. 'The Last Letter' by Jimmie Rodgers
48. 'Letter from Heaven' by Roy Acuff
49. 'Two Blackbirds and a Letter' by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
50. 'A Letter From Viet Nam (to Mother)' by Hank Snow
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