David Allan Coe You Never Even Called Me By My Name (the Perfect C Lyrics

You Never Even Called Me By My Name (the Perfect C Lyrics

Well it was all that I could do to keep from crying.
Sometimes it seems so
useless to remain.
But you don't have to call me darlin', darlin'.
You
never even called me by my name.

You don't have to call me Waylon
Jennings.
And you don't have to call me Charlie Pride.
And you don't have
to call me Merle Haggard anymore,
Even though you're on my fightin'
side.

And I'll hang around as long as you will let me.
And I never
minded standing in the rain.
But you don't have to call me darlin',
darlin'.
You never even called me by my name.

Well I've heard my name
a few times in your phone book.
(Hello, Hello.)
And I've seen it on signs
where I've played.
But the only time I know I'll hear David Allan Coe
Is
when Jesus has his final Judgement Day.

So, I'll hang around as long as
you will let me.
And I never minded standing in the rain.
But you don't
have to call me darlin', darlin'.
You never even called me by my
name.

(spoken:)
Well, a friend of mine named Steve Goodman wrote that
song,
and he told me it was the perfect country and western song.
I wrote
him back a letter and I told him it was not the 
perfect country and western
song because he hadn't said
anything at all about momma, or trains, or
trucks, 
or prison or gettin' drunk.  Well, he sat down and 
wrote
another verse to this song and he sent it to me and
after reading it I
realized that my friend had written the 
perfect country and western song.
And I felt obliged to include
it on this album.  The last verse goes like
this here:

Well, I was drunk the day my momma got out of prison,
And
I went to pick her up in the rain.
But before I could get to tye station in
the pick-up truck,
She got runned over by a damned old train.

And
I'll hang around as long as you will let me.
And I never minded standin' in
the rain. Ohhh.
You don't have to call me darlin', darlin'.
You never
even called me,
Well I wonder why you don't call me,
Why don't you ever
call me by my name?