You Never Even Called Me By My Name

[Verse 1]
C
 Well, it was all,
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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',
C
 darlin'
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You never even call  me by my name

[Verse 2]
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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 Charlie 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 fightin' side

[Chorus]
         F                               C
And I'll hang around as long as you will let me
                  G7                    C
And I never minded  standin' in the rain
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  But you don't have to call me darlin',
C
 darlin'
                   G7         C
You never even call  me by my name

[Verse 3]
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  Well,
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I've heard my name  a few times in your phone book
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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 judgment day

[Chorus]
        F                               C
So I'll hang around as long as you will let me
                  G7                    C
And I never minded  standin' in the rain
C7    F
  But you don't have to call me darlin',
C
 darlin'
                   G7         C   G7
You never even call  me by my name

[Bridge]
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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 mama,
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or trains,  or trucks, or prison,
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 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:

[Verse 4]
Well,
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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 my pickup truck
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  She got run over by a damned old train

[Chorus]
         F                               C
And I'll hang around as long as you will let me
                  G7                C
And I never minded  standin' in the rain
   C7    F
No,  an' you don't have to call me darlin',
C
 darlin'
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You never even call  me
        C                    F
Well, I wonder why you don't call me
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Why don't you ever call  me by my name