You Never Even Called Me By My Name-David Allan Coe

[00:00.00] [00:01.29]It was all that I could do to keep from cryin' [00:07.79] [00:11.17]Sometimes it seems so useless to remain [00:17.35] [00:20.98]You don't have to call me darlin', darlin' [00:28.48] [00:30.17]You never even call me by my name. [00:36.23] [00:40.18]You don't have to call me Waylon Jennings [00:44.93] [00:48.80]And you don't have to call me Charlie Pride. [00:54.86] [00:57.99]You don't have to call me Merle Haggard, anymore. [01:05.42] [01:07.80]Even though your on my fightin' side. [01:15.36]And I'll hang around as long as you will let me [01:21.86] [01:24.92]And I never minded standin' in the rain. [01:31.98] [01:34.61]You don't have to call me darlin', darlin' [01:41.92] [01:43.61]You never even call me by my name. [01:49.56] [01:52.75]I've heard my name a few times in your phone book [01:58.00] [02:01.56]I've seen it on signs where I've laid [02:07.68] [02:10.50]But the only time I know, [02:14.12] [02:15.25]I'll hear David Allan Coe [02:18.68] [02:19.56]Is when Jesus has his final judgement day. [02:27.25] [02:28.00]So I'll hang around as long as you will let me [02:34.38] [02:37.50]And I never minded standin' in the rain. No, [02:47.32]You don't have to call me darlin', darlin' [02:54.36] [02:55.86]You never even call me by my name. [03:02.42] [03:05.05]Well, a friend of mine named Steve Goodman wrote that song [03:07.48] [03:08.61]and he told me it was the perfect country and western song [03:11.36] [03:13.05]I wrote him back a letter and told him it was NOT the perfect [03:15.92]country and western song because he hadn't said anything about [03:19.02]Momma, or trains, or trucks, or prison, or gettin' drunk. [03:28.76] [03:31.14]Well, he sat down and wrote another verse to the song and he sent [03:34.08]it to me and after reading it, [03:36.26]I realized that my friend had written [03:39.14]the perfect country and western song. [03:40.76] [03:41.89]And I felt obliged to include it [03:43.70]on this album. The last verse goes like this here: [03:47.14] [03:49.32]Well, I was drunk the day my Mom got outta prison. [03:54.83] [03:58.58]And I went to pick her up in the rain. [04:04.07] [04:07.45]But, before I could get to the station in my pickup truck [04:15.13] [04:17.94]She got runned over by a damned old train. [04:23.97] [04:25.40]So I'll hang around as long as you will let me [04:31.03] [04:34.41]And I never minded standin' in the rain. No, [04:43.03] [04:43.77]You don't have to call me darlin', darlin' [04:51.84] [04:52.65]You never even call me, I wonder why you don't call me [05:00.40] [05:01.09]Why don't you ever call me by my name.