Chords for David Allan Coe - You Never Even Called Me By My Name - Live 1974 Improved Audio

[C] _ Oh, that, _ that freak song that boys got out. _ _ _
You know that one that says,
_ _ well it was all _ I could [G] do.
_ Keep [C] on trying. _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] Sometimes it seems so useless [C] _
to remain. _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] You don't have to call me [C] darling.
_ _ _ Darling. _
You never _ even [G] called me by [C] my name.
Did I miss [G] anybody, mama? _
_ [C] _ And you don't have [G] to call me [C] Waila Jenny.
_ _ And _ _ _ you don't [G] have to call me [C] Charlie Pryor. _ _
_ _ [F] And you don't have to call [C] me Merrill Hager [Am] _ anymore.
_ _ _ [D] _ Even though you're on my [G] bad side. _ _ _
_ [F] And I'll hang around as long as [C] you will let me. _ _ _
_ I never _ _ [G] understand her in [Em] the rain.
_ [C] _ _
_ _ [F] You don't have to call me [C] darling.
_ _ _ Darling. _
_ You never even [G] called me [C] by my name.
_ [G] _ _
_ _ [C] _ Well a friend of mine named Steve Goodman wrote that song.
_ [F] _ _ [Cm] And he told me it was the perfect [Dm] country and western [C] song.
_ _ Well I wrote him back a letter and [G] I told him
it was not the [B] perfect country and western [A] song
because [G] _ [C] he hadn't said anything at all about mama
or _ [F] _ _ trains or _
_ [C] _ trucks or _ _
_ [G] _ fishing. _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ [C] _ Or drinking love star beer and getting drunk.
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ [C] Well he wrote another verse to the song
and he sent it to me and after reading [G] it
I realized that my friend had written
the perfect country and western [C] song.
_ And I felt obliged to put it out as my new record.
[F] The last verse goes like this here. _
[Em] _ [C] I was drunk _ [G] and my mom [C] got out of prison. _ _ _ _
_ And I went _ to pick [G] her up [C] in the rain. _ _ _
_ But [F] before _ I get to the [C] station and my pick _ up
[Am] the truck [D] she _ got run over by a [G] damn old _ train. _ _
And [F] I hang around _ as [C] she willed it be. _ _ _
I never _ _ _ [G] understand her in the [C] rain.
_ _ No _ [F] you don't have to call [C] me darling.
_ _ Darling. _
Darling.
You never _ [G] even told me.
[C] I wonder why you [F] don't call me.
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