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"The Last Time" is a song written by Kris Kristofferson and recorded by Johnny Cash for his 1980 album Rockabilly Blues.

"The Last Time"
Single by Johnny Cash
from the album Rockabilly Blues
B-side	"Rockabilly Blues (Texas 1955)"
Released	1980 (1980)[1]
Recorded	May 14, 1980
Genre	Country
Label	Columbia 11-11399
Songwriter(s)	Kris Kristofferson
Producer(s)	Earl Poole Ball[2]
Johnny Cash singles chronology
"Cold Lonesome Morning" (1980) "The Last Time" (1980) "Without Love" (1981)
Audio
"The Last Time" on YouTube

Released in 1980 as a single (Columbia 11-11399, with "Rockabilly Blues (Texas 1955)" on the B-side) from that album,[2][3][4] the song reached number 85 on U.S. Billboard's country chart for the week of December 6.[5][6]

"The Last Time" was the first Kris Kristofferson Cash had recorded in six years. The way his voice slips into it, like a body into a comfortable chair, suggests he shouldn't have waited so long. (In fact, a few years prior,the two had discussed recording an album together, where Cash would sing Kristofferson songs, and Kristofferson Cash's, but the album never came to be.)

— C. Eric Banister. Johnny Cash FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Man in Black[7]

Kristofferson also recorded the song himself, his version appears on the 1981 album To the Bone.

Track listing

Charts

Chart (1980)	Peak position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[8]	85

References

External links

• "The Last Time" on the Johnny Cash official website

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