You Never Even Call Me By My Name - Recorded by David Allan Coe Written by Steve Goodman
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Well it was all that I could do to keep from cryin'
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Sometimes it seemed so useless to remain
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But you don't have to call me darlin' darlin'
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You never even call me by my name
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You don't have to call me Waylon Jennings
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And you don't have to call me Charley Pride
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And you don't have to call me Merle Haggard anymore
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Even though you're on my figtin' side
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And I'll hang around as long as you will let me
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And I never minded standin' in the rain
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But you don't have to call me darlin' darlin'
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You never even call me by my name
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Well I've heard my name a few times in your phonebook (hello hello)
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And I've seen it on signs where I've played
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But the only time I know I'll hear David Allan Coe
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Is when Jesus has His final judgement day
Repeat #3 So I'll hang...
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(Well a friend of mine named Steve Goodman wrote that song
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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
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Because he hadn't said anything at all about momma
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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
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Well I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison
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And I went to pick her up in the rain
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But before I could get to the station in a pickup truck
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She got run'd over by a damned old train
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And I'll hang around as long as you will let me
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And I never minded standin' in the rain
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Ohh you don't have to call me darlin' darlin'
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You never even call me but I wonder why you don’t call me
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Why you don’t ever call me by my name