You Never Called Me By My Name - David Allan Coe (karaoke)

Confessions

                         You Don't Even Call Me By My Name                          by: DAVID ALLAN COEC                       G                 CIt was all that I could do to keep from cryin'      F                            CSometimes it seems so useless to remainF                                 CYou don't have to call me darlin', darlin'                 G            CYou never even call me by my name. C              G                   CYou don't have to call me Waylon Jennings C                     G                CAnd you don't have to call me Charlie Pride. F                                C        Am You don't have to call me Merle Haggard, anymore. D                               GEven though your on my fightin' side.CHORUS           F                               CAnd I'll hang around as long as you will let me C                    G             C And I never minded standin' in the rain. F                               CYou don't have to call me darlin', darlin'                G             C      G You never even call me by my name.I've heard my name a few times in your phone bookI've seen it on signs where I've laidBut the only time I know, I'll hear David Allan CoeIs when Jesus has his final judgement day.   CHORUS...     then: the spoken part below has this played in the background:(the numbers are complete bars)C-2 G-4 C-2 G-2 C-1 G-1 and then C to finish out the rest. Well, a friend of mine named Steve Goodman wrote that songand he told me it was the perfect country and western songI wrote him back a letter and told him it was NOT the perfectcountry and western song because he hadn't said anything aboutMomma, or trains, or trucks, or prison, or gettin' drunk.Well, he sat down and wrote another verse to the song and he sentit 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 iton 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 truckShe got runned over by a damned old train.CHORUS:So I'll hang around as long as you will let meAnd I never minded standin' in the rain. No,You don't have to call me darlin', darlin'    C              G           C                   FYou never even call me, I wonder why you don't call me     C              G             F      C F C          Why don't you ever call me by my name. Jacob Wilson   (jacobw@andromeda.tamu.edu)