Chords for David Allan Coe - You Never Even Call Me By My Name (Live at Farm Aid 1994)

[G] Now before I came on stage tonight a young lady walked up to me backstage
And she said I heard a record on the radio today coming in by a guy named Doug super now that you used to sing _ _ _ I
Said yeah
It reminded me when I was leaving Nashville, Tennessee
_ Yesterday I drove by a billboard sign there was a big eagle on the sign and underneath the eagle
It said some things can't be [C] duplicated _
It was all that I [G] could do to keep [C] from crying _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ Sometimes
Things so useless [C] to remain
_ But _ _
[F] you don't have to call me [C] darling
_ _ Darling _ you never _ [G] even called me by [C] my name
_ [G] And _ _
[C] you don't have to [G] call me [C] Waylon Jennings
_ And _ _ _ you don't [G] have to call me [C] Charlie Harper _ _ _ _
[F] And you don't have call me [C] Merle Heigert [Am] anymore _ _
[D] Even _ though you're on my side
[G] _ _ _ And _ _ [F] I'll hang around
_ Long as [C] you let me
_ And I never
_ [G] Minded standing in the [C] rain
_ _ _ _ _ [F]
You don't have to call me [C]
darling _ _ Darling
_ You never _ [G] even called me by my [C] name
_ [G] Well, _ _ _
[C] I've heard my [G] name a few times [C] in your phone book.
Hello.
_ Hello _
And I've read it [G] on those songs [C] where I
_ _ Find _
[F] But the only time I know _
[C] I'll hear David [Am] Allen call
[D] This when Jesus has his final judgment [G] day _ _ _ _ _
[F] And I hang around
_ Long as [C] he let me
_ And _ I never
_ [G] Minded standing [C] in the rain _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ You don't have to call me [C] darling
_ _ Darling _ you never _ [G] even called me by [C] my name
_ [G] Well _ [C] a friend of mine named Steve Goodman wrote that song _
[F] and he told me it was the perfect country and [C] Western song _ I
Wrote him back a letter and I told him it was not the [G] perfect country and Western song
Because he hadn't said anything [C] at all about mama _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ trains or trucks _ or _ _ [C] prisons
_ _ Or getting [G] drunk
_ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ [C] Well, he wrote another verse to the song and he sent it to [F] me and after reading it
I realized that my friend had written the perfect [C] country and Western song
And I felt obliged to put it out as my third [G] record.
The last verse went like [Em] this.
_ [C] I
Was drunk the day [G] my mom got [C] out of prison _ _ _
_ _ _ And I went [G]
pick her up
_ [C] in the rain _ _ But _ [F] before _
You get to the station [C] in my pick _ [Am] up What happened
[D] _ _ He _ [E] _ _ _ [G] _ saw _ _ party
And [F] I hang around
_ Long as you [C] let me
long time earlier _ I never _
[G] Mighty stand up [C] in the rain _ No
_ _ [F] You don't have to call me [C] darling _
_ Darling
_ _ You never _ [G] even called me.
_ [C] I
Wonder why you [F] don't call me [C] and why don't you [G] ever call me by [F] my name?
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ Thank [N] you
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _