David Allan Coe - You Never Even Called Me by My Name Chords

C (let ring)

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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 standing 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

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So I'll hang around as long as you will let me 
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and I never minded standing 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 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 told him

It was not the percfect country and western song
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Because he hadn't said anything at all about mama
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Or trains   or trucks or prison   or gettin' drunk
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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)


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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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 So I'll hang around as long as you will let me 
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and I never minded standing 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 
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Well I wonder why you don't call me 
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Why don't you ever call me by my name?