Here's another one!

I woke up with the words "getting cards and letters from people I don't even know..." playing in my head. And, I thought, "'Rhinestone Cowboy'! There's another song with lyrics about letters!"

Oh, yes, I admit it...I know the words to Glen Campbell's "Rhinestone Cowboy." If you're not familiar with the 1970s song written by Larry Weiss, you can hear it on Glen Campbell's MySpace page.

Another letter song is Collin Raye's "Love, Me." It's about a grandpa who carries around a letter that the grandma wrote him years ago, and many lyrics sites online refer to it as "If You Get There Before I Do." It was written by Skip Ewing and Max T. Barnes. It starts out, "I read a note my grandma wrote back in nineteen twenty-three.
Grandpa kept it in his coat, and he showed it once to me."

I wonder how many love letters were sent and received last week...

I heard it on the radio

"Oh yes, wait a minute, Mr. Postman. Wait, Mr. Postman. Please Mr. Postman, look and see, is there a letter, a letter for me?"

So sang The Marvelettes, the Carpenters, The Beatles, and probably other groups. For many generations, it may be the most well-known song about mail.

But, I remember several others...

In 1980, George Jones released "He Stopped Loving Her Today," with the lyrics, "...kept some letters by his bed, dated 1962. He had underlined in red every single 'I love you.'"

Like Jones' song, many songs about letters are sad. "Travelin' Soldier," written by Bruce Robison and recorded by the Dixie Chicks tells of a young man going off to war and seeking someone he can send letters back to: "He said I bet you got a boyfriend but I don't care, I got no one to send a letter to. Would you mind if I sent one back here to you?"

Conway Twitty's "Joanie" says, "Joanie wrote me a note one day, and this is what she had to say, 'Jimmy please say you'll wait for me; I'll grow up some day, you'll see.'"

Several songs have the title "Dear John" or "Dear John Letter," including one recorded by Hank Williams. R.B. Greaves sang "Take a Letter Maria," and The Box Tops (and many others) sang, "Give me a ticket for an aeroplane, Ain't got time to take a fast train.
Lonely days are gone, I'm a-goin' home, 'Cause my baby done wrote me a letter," in the song "The Letter."

From the 1930s came "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter," recorded by Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Fats Waller, Billy Williams, Nat King Cole, Barry Manilow and many others. And, in 1962, Elvis Presley released "Return to Sender": "I gave a letter to the postman, He put it his sack. Bright and early next morning, He brought my letter back. She wrote upon it: Return to sender, address unknown. No such number, no such zone."

More recently, Brad Paisley sings about writing a letter and sending it back in time to his 17-year-old self, reassuring himself that everything will be OK.

What songs about letters do you know? I'm sure there are more!