“Tomorrow I’ll Be Gone” was written by Wilma Lee Cooper, the country and bluegrass singer. Bill Monroe recorded it with his Blue Grass Boys in 1959.
The song is a parting announcement. The singer warns the one he loves that tomorrow he will be gone — the heart already set on leaving — and the lyric weighs the last night before a departure.
The song carried through bluegrass, recorded by the Johnson Mountain Boys among others.