G D
It was all that I could do
G
to keep from cryin'
C G
sometimes it seems so useless to remain
C G
But you don't have to call me darlin', darlin'
G D G
You never even call me by my name.
G D G
You don't have to call me Waylon Jennings
G D G
And you don't have to call me Charlie Pride.
C G Em
And you don't have to call me Merle Haggard, anymore.
A D
Even though your on my fightin' side.
CHORUS:
C G
And I'll hang around as long as you will let me
G D G
And I never minded standin' in the rain.
C G
But you don't have to call me darlin', darlin'
G D G
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 played
But the only time I know, I'll hear David Allan Coe
Is when Jesus has his final judgement day
CHORUS:
G D
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 I told him
G
it was not the perfect country and western song
because he hadn't said anything
D G D
at all about momma...or trains...or trucks...or prison...
or gettin' drunk.
G
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...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'
G D G C
You never even call me, Well, I wonder why you don't call me
G D C G
Why don't you ever call me by my name.