"Old Violin" is a song by American country music singer Johnny Paycheck. It is a single from his 1986 album Modern Times.

"Old Violin" was recorded in the mid-1980s during Paycheck's tenure with Mercury Records. The song was among his first recordings after Paycheck had been imprisoned for aggravated assault at a bar in Hillsboro, Ohio.^[2][1][3]

Kurt Wolff, in Country Music: The Rough Guide, describes "Old Violin" as a song in which Paycheck "faces old age with genuine trepidation".^[4] The lyric features the narrator comparing himself to an "old violin, soon to be put away and never played again".^[5]

In 2002, Daryle Singletary covered "Old Violin" for his covers album That's Why I Sing This Way. Singletary wanted to include Paycheck on his recording, and had a then-ill Paycheck deliver the song's closing recitation from his hospital bed. This recording was Paycheck's last before his death in early 2003.^[5][6] George Strait covered the song on his 2019 album Honky Tonk Time Machine.^[7]