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You Never Even Call Me By My Name
Recorded by David Allan Coe
Written by Steve Goodman

C                            G7              C
Well it was all that I could do to keep from cryin'
    F                             C
Sometimes it seemed so useless to remain
F                                     C
But you don't have to call me darlin'  darlin'
               G7            C
You never even call me by my name

                  G7             C
You don't have to call me Waylon Jennings
                      G7              C
And you don't have to call me Charley Pride
    F                               C       Am
And you don't have to call me Merle Haggard anymore
D7                               G7
Even though you're on my figtin' side

         F                               C
And I'll hang around as long as you will let me
                   G7              C
And I never minded standin' in the rain
F                                     C
But you don't have to call me darlin'  darlin'
               G7            C   G7
You never even call me by my name

C                         G7                C
Well I've heard my name a few times in your phonebook (hello hello)
                    G7               C
And I've seen it on signs where I've played
        F                     C                Am
But the only time I know I'll hear David Allan Coe
D7                                    G7
Is when Jesus has His final judgement day  

Repeat #3 So I'll hang...

        C
(Well a friend of mine named Steve Goodman wrote that song
                          G7
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
           C
Because he hadn't said anything at all about momma
             G7                  C
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 readin' it I realized
                               
That my friend had written the perfect country and western song

And I felt at last obliged to itself the last verse goes like this here

G7         C                G7             C
Well I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison
                       G7        C
And I went to pick her up in the rain
    F                                      C      Am
But before I could get to the station in a pickup truck
D7                                 G7
She got run'd over by a damned old train

         F                               C
And I'll hang around as long as you will let me
                   G7              C
And I never minded standin' in the rain
C7  F                                 C
Ohh you don't have to call me darlin'  darlin'
               G7            C                    F
You never even call me but I wonder why you don’t call me
C                  G7            F  C
Why you don’t ever call me by my name

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