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Today from Ellie's Near-Bottomless Music Library, we have a long time favorite. Besides, this seemed much more appropriate than the posting of the lyrics to Little Susie Shallow Throat. :p

You Never Even Call Me By My Name
performed by David Allen Coe, with Charlie Pride and Merle Haggard

Well it was all that I could do
To keep from cryin'
Sometimes it seems so useless to remain
But 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.
And you don't have to call me Merle Haggard, anymore.
Even though you're on my fightin' side.

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

I've seen my name a few times in your phonebook
And I've seen it on signs where I play.
But the only time I know
I'll hear "David Allan Coe"
Is when Jesus has his final judgement day

CHORUS

(spoken monologue)
Well a friend of mine named Steve Goodman wrote that song, and
he told me it was the perfect country and western song. Well, I
wrote him back a letter and told him it was not the perfect
country and western song because he hadn't said anything at all
about mama or trains or trucks or prison or gettin' drunk. Well,
he sat down and wrote another verse to this song and he sent it
to me and after readin' it I realized that my friend had written
the perfect country and western song. I felt obliged to include
it on this album. The last verse goes like this here:


Well I was drunk the day my mama got outta prison
And I went to pick 'er 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 to Close


After a nap I'm feeling a bit more presentable. I need to forage for something edible here, and decide what I'm doing. Dunno yet. We'll see, yes? Might spend the night working more on my collection of recalcitrant computers....

Date: 2003-10-19 10:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] matraia.livejournal.com
Heh.. I haven't heard that song in forever. Thanks for bringing back memories. And here's to Coe, the dirtiest man in country music. ;)

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