David Allan Coe – You Never Even Called Me By My Name (Ukulele)

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    Well it was all 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'     darlin'

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You never even call me by my name

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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 Charley 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 figtin' side

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

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and I never minded standingin the rain.

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But you don't have to call me darlin'   darlin'

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you never even call me by my name

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Well I've heard my name a few times in your phonebook  hello hello 

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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 judgement day

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

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and I never minded standing in the rain.

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But you don't have to call me darlin'    darlin'

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you never even call me by my name

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 Well a friend of mine named Steve Goodman wrote that song, and he told me it was

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the perfect country and western song

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I wrote him back a letter and told him

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It was not the percfect 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 or gettin' drunk

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Well he sat down and wrote another verse to the song and he sent it to me

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And after reading it I realized

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That my friend had written the perfect country and western song

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And I felt at last obliged to include it on this album - last verse goes like this here 

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Well 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 a pickup truck

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    She got run'd over by a damned old train

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

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and I never minded standing in the rain.

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But you don't have to call me darlin'   darlin'

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you never even called me,

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well I wonder why you don't call me,

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why dont you ever call me by my name.