A Bitter End

{{Infobox song | name = A Bitter End | cover = | alt = | type = single | artist = Deryl Dodd | album = Deryl Dodd | B-side = Time on My Hands | released = September 12, 1998 | format = | recorded = | studio = | venue = | genre = Country | length = 3:40 | label = Columbia | writer = Deryl Dodd, Kenny Beard | producer = Chip Young, Blake Chancey | prev_title = Time on My Hands | prev_year = 1998 | next_title = Sundown | next_year = 1999 }} "'''A Bitter End'''" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Deryl Dodd. It was released in September 1998 as the first single from the album ''Deryl Dodd''. The song reached #26 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.<ref>{{cite book |title= Hot Country Songs: 1944-2012, Eighth edition|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |publisher=Record Research |year=2013 |page=103}}</ref> The song was written by Dodd and Kenny Beard.

==Critical reception== A review of the album in ''Billboard'' stated that the song was a "classic 'woe is lonely me' weeper."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LgoEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22deryl+dodd%22+%22time+on+my+hands%22&pg=RA1-PA84|title=Reviews|date=December 5, 1998|work=Billboard|accessdate=2 January 2018}}</ref>

==Chart performance== {|class="wikitable sortable" !align="left"|Chart (1998–1999) !align="center"|Peak<br />position |- {{singlechart|Billboardhot100|88|artist=Deryl Dodd}} |- {{singlechart|Billboardcountrysongs|26|artist=Deryl Dodd}} |- |align="left"|Canadian ''RPM'' Country Tracks |align="center"|44 |}

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bitter End}} Category:1998 singles Category:1998 songs Category:Deryl Dodd songs Category:Songs written by Kenny Beard Category:Song recordings produced by Blake Chancey Category:Columbia Records singles