One week after Toby Keith’s death, his longtime friend Cledus T. Judd paid tribute to the star with an emotional tribute to the tune of one of Keith’s most memorable songs.

Cledus T. Judd, a musician best known for his comedic tunes and parodies of country hits, put his comedy aside with his latest video – a touching tribute to the late Toby Keith. The star shared a video to social media Monday (Feb. 12) in which he changed the words to Keith’s song, “Don’t Let The Old Man In” to “I’m Gonna Miss You Old Friend.”

“I was sitting in my hotel room the other night around 9:30 at night trying to think of some way to pay homage to my good friend Toby. I thought ‘maybe I’ll write him a song. He kinda always liked my parodies,” Judd said, adding that he had done numerous parodies of Toby’s songs like “How Do You Like Me Now?” and “I Love This Bar” in the past.

Judd shared that he was going to call a friend up to help him co-write a song for Toby, but decided against it because “Toby wrote ‘Don’t Let The Old Man In’ by himself. I’m gonna write ‘I’m Gonna Miss My Old Friend’ by [myself].”

“So I sat there until about 2:30 in the morning and tried to do the best job I could do. I’m not a very good singer, but I hope Toby would like it,” Judd said as an introduction to the song.

In addition to numerous parodies of Toby Keith’s songs, Cletus T. Judd also starred in Toby’s music video for “Who’s Your Daddy?” in 2002.
The two men shared a long friendship, as made evident in an emotional clip Judd shared to social media after learning of Toby Keith’s death on February 5.

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