"-1960), Bill Anderson (album "...Sings Country Heart Songs" - January 15, 1962), John D. Loudermilk (album "Country Love Songs Plain and Simply Sung
Country Love Songs Plain and Simply Sung" - August 1968), Hank Snow (album "Greatest Hits") and Conway Twitty (album "Hello Darlin' " - June 1970).The version by Willie Nelson, recorded for his 1975 concept album "Red Headed Stranger", which was about a fugitive preacher on the run from the law after killing his wife, was lauded by country music historian Bill Malone as "a fine example of clean, uncluttered country music, [with] a spare arrangement that could have come straight out of the 1940s."