You Never Even Called Me by My Name Chords by David Allan Coe

[Start]

[Verse]
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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 called 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 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 fighting' side


[Chorus]
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And I'll hang around as long as you will let me
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And I never minded standin' 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 by my name


[Verse]
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■  Well 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


[Chorus]
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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 ■
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So I'll hang around as long as you will let me
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And I never minded standin' 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 by my name ■ 


[Verse]
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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 & western song
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I wrote him back a letter and I told him it was not the perfect country & 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 that my friend had written the perfect country & western song
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And I felt obliged to include it on this album
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The last verse goes like this here
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Well I was drunk ■ the day my mom got out of prison


[Chorus]
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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
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And I'll hang around as long as you will let me
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And I never minded standin' in the rain Lord
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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 don't you ever call me by my name ■  ■


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