Songfacts®:

• "Gone, Gone, Gone (Done Moved On)" is one long promise to leave a partner.
  
  You'll wake up and find out you're alone
  Cause I'll be gone
  Gone, gone, gone really gone
  
  Read alone, the lyrics sound like the anguished threats of a wounded lover, yet the song's upbeat, jingly music makes the message come across more as a maliciously gleeful threat - which may explain the song's appeal to fans. How many of us have been stuck in bad relationships, wishing we had the guts to sing something like this to our tormentors?
• The best-known version is the one released by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss on their 2007 album, Raising Sand, but the Everly Brothers wrote and recorded the original, which they titled "Gone, Gone, Gone" (without the "done moved on" part of the Plant/Krauss cover). It was the title track of their 1964 album of the same name. At that point in their careers, the Brothers were spinning apart personally and professionally, and the disintegration came across in an album that underwhelmed fans and critics alike.
• Plant and Krauss had much more success with their cover. It was the first single they released off Raising Sand. They added a parenthetic "done moved on" to the title, but their version is a straightforward cover of the original. It hit #109 on the UK Singles Chart and #3 on Billboard's Adult Alternative Airplay. At the 50th Grammy Awards, it won Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals. The Americana Music Association nominated it for 2008 Song of the Year, but it lost out to "She Left Me For Jesus."
  
  The Plant/Krauss version retains the tauntingly happy music. The video features Plant and Krauss singing to each other on treadmills amidst a backdrop of mirror balls and tinsel.