"Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone" — the 1930 request for posthumous silence.
Please don't talk about me when I'm gone,
Oh, honey though our friendship ceases, from now on;
And, listen, if you can't say anything real nice,
It's better not to talk at all, is my advice.
We're parting, you go your way I'll go mine,
it's best that we do;
Here's a kiss! I hope that this brings lots of luck to you.
Makes no difference how I carry on,
Remember, please don't talk about me when I'm gone.
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- Written by Sidney Clare and Sam Stept in 1930. The request to be remembered kindly, or not discussed at all — the dignity of the departed being entirely in the hands of those left behind. Sinatra making the vulnerability sound like authority.