You Never Even Called Me by My Name (The Perfect Country and Western So
by David Allan Coe

It was all that I could do to keep from crying
Sometimes it seems so to remain
but you don't have to call me darlin, darlin
you never even called me by my name

You don't have to call me Waylon Jennings
and you don't have to call me Charlie Pride
and you don't have to call me Merle Haggard anymore
even though you're on my fighting side

(chorus)
and I'll hang aroung as long as you will let me
and I never mind it standing in the rain
and you don't have to call me darlin, darlin
you never even called me by name

Well I've heard my name a few times in your phone book
and I've seen it on signs where I played
but the only time I know, I'll hear David Allan Coe
is when Jesus has his final judgement day

(repeat chorus)

(Recitation)

Well a friend of mine named Steve Goodman wrote that song
and he told me it was the perfect country & western song
I wrote him back a letter and told him it was not the perfect country & western song
because he hadn't said anything about trains, trucks, prison & gettin drunk
well he sat down and wrote another verse to the song and he sent it to me
and I realized that my friend had written the perfect country & western song
I felt obliged to include it on this album, the last verse goes like this here

I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison & I went to pick her up in the rain
but before I could get to the station in my pickup truck
she got ranned over by a damned old train

repeat chorus
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