Last Letter Home
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"Last Letter Home" is a Dropkick Murphys song from the album The Warrior's Code that was inspired by the death of Sgt. Andrew Farrar who was killed in Iraq on January 28, 2005.
Farrar's final letter home included a request that the song "Fields of Athenry" from the album Blackout be played at his funeral.
The band recorded a stripped down version of the song and presented it to Farrar's family. A copy of the CD was placed in Farrar's casket with him. The band's bagpiper Scruffy Wallace also played the song as Farrar's coffin was carried into the church.
