David Allen Coe You Never Even Call Me By My Name Lyrics

You Never Even Call Me By My Name Lyrics

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

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

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

I've heard my name a few times in your phone book
I've
seen it on signs where I've laid
But the only time I know, I'll hear David
Allan Coe
Is when Jesus has his final judgement
day.

CHORUS...

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 told him it was NOT the perfect
country and
western song because he hadn't said anything about
Momma, or trains, or
trucks, or prison, or gettin' drunk.
Well, he sat down and wrote another
verse to the 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 Mom got outta prison.
And I went
to pick her up in the rain.
But, before I could get to the station in my
pickup truck
She got runned over by a damned old
train.

CHORUS:

So I'll hang around as long as you will let
me
And I never minded standin' in the rain. No,
You don't have to call me
darlin', darlin'
You never even call me, I wonder why you don't call
me
Why don't you ever call me by my name.