Even a Fool Would Let Go is a country song by songwriters Tom Snow and Kerry Chater (a former member of Gary Puckett & The Union Gap). The song lyrics meditate on a tempting but imprudent and perhaps adulterous ("neither one of us is free") love affair.
The first recording of the song was by Gayle McCormick (formerly of the band Smith) on her 1974 solo album One More Hour: Kerry Chater himself recorded the song for his 1976 Part Time Love album. In the autumn of 1976 Charlie Rich recorded the song at Columbia Recording Studio in Nashville with Billy Sherrill producing: the track was issued as a single in the UK in the spring of 1977 but was not issued in the US until 1980 when it became a minor C&W hit reaching #61.
Other versions of "Even a Fool Would Let Go" have been recorded by B. J. Thomas (1977), Kenny Rogers (1978), Ava Barber (1979), Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn (1979), Dolly Parton (1980), Debby Boone (on her 1980 album Love Has No Reason which takes its name from the song's lyrics), Nana Mouskouri (1981), Dionne Warwick (1981), Gloria Gaynor (1982), Levon Helm (1982), The Marshall Tucker Band (1982), Joe Cocker (1984), John Anderson (1985), and Gregson & Collister (1990)[1].