First time I heard this song, it was Peter, Paul and Mary who sang it. I
didn't find out till I bought the music that someone named Tom Paxton
wrote the song. Later on I took the kids to a folk concert in Fort
Worth, Texas where both PP&M and Tom Paxton performed the same
night. One of the songs Tom sang was "Last Thing on My Mind," a lament
about lost love - the kind that's your fault. Tom writes a lot of
protest songs. Some I agree with and some I don't. I'm funny like that
about folk music.
Here's Tom singing "Last Thing on My Mind,"
with another favorite of mine, Liam Clancy of the Clancy brothers. There
are much better sounding versions of this song, but I couldn't resist a
live version with Liam.
Kind of a sad song, but the guitar part is very nice. I learned to play it on the guitar and used to sing it when girlfriend's broke up with me. That actually happened a lot. This song got me through some bad days.
