Chords for Steve Goodman You Never Even Call Me By My Name Live on Austin City LImits

Can I borrow your hat? _ _ _ _ _
_ Can I borrow your hat?
I'll give it back to you.
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[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ A song I wrote with _ John Prine.
We tried to put into one song
everything that it had ever been
in any of the country and western songs
we'd ever heard.
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_ Good thing for a little Hebrew fellow from Chicago to do, you know what I mean? _
_ _ What do I know about it?
Anyhow, all this stuff I'd heard
on the radio
_ _ reminded me of this.
_ _ _ When John and I wrote this, we actually thought
we could do it.
_ Put all that stuff in one song. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ David Alan Cope
_ _ recorded an amazing version. _ _
It was all
I could [D] do
to keep [G] from crying. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Sometimes it seems [D] so useless
to [G] remain. _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ You're the one who _ always
[G] tried to change _
me.
_ And that is why
I [D] will always
[G] stay the same. _ _
_ _ But [C] I'll hang around
as long as
[G] you will let me. _
_ _ _ _ [C] I never [G] minded standing
_ in the [D] rain. _
_ Where'd you get this [A] hat?
_ _ _ [D] _
[G] You don't have
to call [C] me [G] darling, darling. _ _ _
But you never even [D] call me
[G] by my name. _ _ _ _
_ _ You don't have to call me Freddy Fender. _
_ You don't have to call me _ Charlie Fry. _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] You don't
have to call me Merle Haggard anymore. _ Even though
you know you're [D] on
my fighting [G] side. _ _ _ _
_ And I'm [C] gonna
_ _ _ [G] _
hang around as long as you will let me. _ _
Put a lid.
I never minded standing in [G] the rain.
_ [D] The rain.
[G] Oh, you don't have to
[C]
call me [G] darling,
darling. _ _
_ But you never
even [D] call me
by [G] my name.
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[D] _ _ _ _ _ [G] I've _
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[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] seen my name a [E] few times
in the past [A] book. _ _ _ _ _
And on the neon sign above the bar [E] I used to own, [A] _ _ _ _ there's only one [D] thing that _ I'm really
sure of, _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ I'm gonna hear it [E] when my savior calls me [A] home. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [D] _ _ It's a lot to get into one song, but we left out all the good stuff.
_ We left out prison trains, trucks, mother farms, dead dogs like old Shep, and Christmas.
Mother prison trains, trucks, farms, dead dogs, and Christmas.
So, [G] I just [D] put this verse on the end of it here, since you can't have a good country
song without mother prison trains, trucks, farms, dead dogs. _ _
_ [G] Ever since the dog died [D]
and mama went [G] to prison, _ _ _
_ _ ain't nothing around [D] this farm that's been [G] the same. _ _ _
_ _ [C] You know that when mom broke out [G] last Christmas, _ _ _ she drove the goddamn getaway laundry [A]
truck
into [G] a train. _ _
But [C] if _ _ _ _ _ you [G] will let _ me, _ _ _ [C] _ I'd never [G] mind it, standing [D] in the rain. _ _
_ _ _ [G] You don't have to [C] call me darling, [G] _ _ _ _
_ but you never even call [D] me.
No, you never even [C] call me.
And [G] you never even [D]
call [A] me by my [C] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [E] name.
[G] _ _ _ _
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_ Thank you very much.
I know how loose that was. _
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I'll just play a few, okay?
Thank you very much. _ _
_ _ _ They obviously gonna have to get the scissors out for this set.
_ _ So, it don't matter now, I'm just playing.
Thank you.
_ _ You know, you try and, _ [Ab] anytime you concentrate, you get in trouble.
I'm learning. _
_ Good.
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