Gene Autry – At Mail Call Today, is a song written by American country music artist Gene Autry and Fred Rose. The two had a successful song writing partnership dating back to 1941, including “Be Honest With Me”, “Tweedle-O-Twill” and “Tears On My Pillow”. Rose, with Roy Acuff, founded Acuff-Rose Music Publishing in 1942, and in 1947, would go on to producing Hank Williams. Autry, after a brief lull in film making due to WWII, would be back to his pre-war output by 1946.
The song, recorded in December 1944, was Gene Autry’s most successful song on the Juke Box Folk charts, peaking at number one for eight weeks with a total of twenty-two weeks on the charts. The B-side of “At Mail Call Today”, a song entitled, “I’ll Be Back” peaked at number seven on the same chart.
Gene Autry – At Mail Call Today
Single by Gene Autry
B-side “I’ll Be Back”
Released March 1945
Recorded December 6, 1944
Studio CBS Columbia Square Studio, Hollywood, California
Genre Country & Western
Length 2:49
Label Okeh 6737
Songwriter(s) Gene Autry, Fred Rose
COUNTRYPEDIA
Gene Autry – At Mail Call Today Lyrics
[Verse 1]
At mail call today dear your last letter came
I just stood there smiling ’til they called my name
As I read it over the sky turned to grey
And tears dimmed my eyes love at mail call today
[Verse 2]
I can’t understand love what’s happened to you
The day that I sailed love you said you’d be true
But now it’s all over what more can I say
My poor heart was broken at mail call today
[Verse 3]
I slept in the foxhole amid shot and shell
I’m telling you now love it’s worse than all hell
I thought you would wait love while I was away
But my castle tumbled at mail call today
[Verse 4]
I hope you’ll be happy with somebody new
But always remember my heart beats for you
Good luck and God bless you wherever you stray
The world for me ended at mail call today
GENIUS
