You Never Even Call Me By My Name

This one was swiped from a depository of Coe songs. Note that they didn't get the song title right. Oh Well!

• The Steve Goodman Scrap Book
• The GLAD
• The Chords Index

~From: jacobw@andromeda.tamu.edu (Jacob Wilson)

~Subject: no subject (file transmission)





                         You Don't Even Call Me By My Name

                          by: DAVID ALLAN COE



C                       G

It was all that I could do

               C

to keep from cryin'

      F                            C

sometimes it seems so useless to remain

F                                 C

You don't have to call me darlin', darlin'

                 G            C

You never even call me by my name.

 C              G                   C

You don't have to call me Waylon Jennings

 C                     G                C

And you don't have to call me Charlie Pride.

 F                                C        Am 

You don't have to call me Merle Haggard, anymore.

 D                               G

Even though your on my fightin' side.



CHORUS 

          F                               C

And I'll hang around as long as you will let me

                      G

And I never minded standin' in the rain.

 F                               C

You don't have to call me darlin', darlin'

                G             C

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 laid

But the only time I know, I'll hear David Allan Coe

Is when Jesus has his final judgement day.   



 

CHORUS:





(enter now the Steve Goodman story.  The first half is played with a background 

 of C and G.  Just before Steve writes back with the perfect Country and

Western song, it is just a straight background C chord. 





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'   

 C              G           F                   C 

You never even call me, I wonder why you don't call me

     F              C             G     C F C          

Why don't you ever call me by my name.





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