You Never Even Call Me By My Name lyrics

Artist  : David Allen Coe 
Song : You Never Even Call Me By My Name
 


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.