YOU NEVER EVEN CALL ME BY MY NAME
Performed 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.