Dear John Lyrics

Dear John lyrics

Dear John

-Artist: Pat Boone from "Pat Boone's Greatest Hits"-Dot DLP
25455
-peak Billboard position # 44 in 1960
-previously a # 1 country hit
for Jean Shepard and Ferlin Husky in 1953
-Words and Music by Billy Barton,
Fuzzy Owen, and Lewis A. Talley


CHORUS
Dear John (Dear
John)
Oh, how I hate to write
Dear John (Dear John)
I must let you
know tonight
That my love for you has gone
There's no reason to go
on
For tonight I wed another, dear John

SPOKEN: I was overseas in
battle when the postman came to me. And he handed
me a letter. Aww, I was
happy as I could be. You see, the fighting was all over and
the battles,
they'd all been won. Then I, I opened up the letter and it started
"Dear
John."

CHORUS

(Dear John)
SPOKEN: Will you please
send back my picture? You see, my husband wants it
now. When I tell you who
I'm wedding you won't care, dear, anyhow. Now the
ceremony has started and
I'll wed your brother Don. Please wish us happiness
forever, dear
John.


Transcribed by Robin Hood

These lyrics were transcribed
from the specific recording mentioned above
and do not necessarily correspond
with lyrics from other recordings, sheet
music, songbooks or lyrics printed
on album jackets.