Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends

"Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends"
Single by Ronnie Milsap
from the album Pure Love
B-side"Streets of Gold"
ReleasedJuly 1974
RecordedMay 1971 (original Warner Bros. Records version)
January 1974 (RCA Records version)
GenreCountry
Length2:41
LabelRCA Victor
Songwriter(s)Kris Kristofferson
Producer(s)Tom Collins, Jack D. Johnson
Ronnie Milsap singles chronology
"Pure Love"
(1974)
"Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends"
(1974)
"(I'd Be) A Legend in My Time"
(1974)

"Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends" is a song written by Kris Kristofferson and first recorded by Bobby Bare, who included it on his Where Have All the Seasons Gone album in January 1971.

Kristofferson recorded the song with Rita Coolidge for their final duet album, Natural Act, and later with Mark Knopfler for The Austin Sessions.