You Never Even Called Me by My Name Chords by David Allan Coe
- Key: C
- BPM: 105
- Capo: no capo
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YOU NEVER EVEN CALLED ME BY MY NAME CHORDS
[Start] [Verse] C G C ■ Well it was all that I could do to keep from cryin' C7 F C7 C ■ Sometimes it seemed so useless to remain ■ F C But you don't have to call me darlin' darlin' G7 C G7 You never even called me by my name ■ C G7 C ■ You don't have to call me Waylon Jennings G7 C And you don't have to call me Charlie Pride F C Am And you don't have to call me Merle Haggard anymore D D7 G7 ■ Even though you're on my fighting' side [Chorus] F C And I'll hang around as long as you will let me G C C7 And I never minded standin' in the rain ■ C F C ■ But you don't have to call me darlin' ■ darlin' Em C G7 C You never even called me by my name [Verse] G7 C G7 C ■ Well I've heard my name a few times in your phone book G7 C And I've seen it on signs where I've played [Chorus] F C F C Am But the only time I know I'll hear David Allan Coe D7 Am D7 G G7 G Is when Jesus has his final judgment day ■ F C So I'll hang around as long as you will let me G7 C And I never minded standin' in the rain F C But you don't have to call me darlin' darlin' G7 C G7 You never even called me by my name ■ [Verse] C Well a friend of mine named Steve Goodman wrote that song G And he told me it was the perfect country & western song G7 I wrote him back a letter and I told him it was not the perfect country & western song C Because he hadn't said anything at all about mama G C G Or trains ■ or trucks or prison ■ or gettin' drunk ■ G7 C Well he sat down and wrote another verse to the song and he sent it to me C And after reading it I realized that my friend had written the perfect country & western song C7 And I felt obliged to include it on this album C The last verse goes like this here C7 C G7 C Well I was drunk ■ the day my mom got out of prison [Chorus] G7 C C7 And I went to pick her up in the rain ■ F C F C Am7 But before ■ I could get to the station in my pickup truck ■ D G ■ She got run over by a damned old train F C And I'll hang around as long as you will let me G C And I never minded standin' in the rain Lord F C But you don't have to call me darlin' darlin' G You never even called me C F Well I wonder why you don't call me C G7 F C7 C Why don't you ever call me by my name ■ ■ [End]