Chords for Steve Goodman - You Never Even Call Me By My Name (with lyrics)

_ The first song I get to sing for you tonight is a song John Prine and I wrote, and we tried to put_
[G] _ _
We tried to put into [D] one song everything that had ever been in any of the country and western [C] songs we had ever heard.
[D] That's why I borrowed this hat from [G] John. _
_ [D] _ _ [G] _ David Allen Coe actually recorded this.
I'd like to thank him, too.
_ Here's the song.
_ _ [C#] _ [Bm] _ _ _ [F#] _ [Am] _
_ _ [A#] _ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _
[C] _ [Em] [G] It was all [D] I could do _ [G] to keep from crying. _ _
_ _ _ Sometimes it [D] seems so useless [G] to remain. _ _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ [C] You'll always _ _ try [G] to change me.
_ _ And that is why I [D] will [A] always stay [G] the same.
_ _ _ [A] _ [G] [C] But I _ _ _ _ promise [Em] you [G] will let _ me.
_ _ _ I ain't ever _ _ [A] in [G] the _ rain.
_ _ [A] _ [G] _ [C]
You don't have to call me [Em] darling, _
[G] _ _ _ darling.
_ But you never even [D] call me bye [G]-bye, darling.
_ Here's the solo. _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
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_ [B] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ And then they modulate. _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Well, [A] I've seen my name a few times in the phone book. _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ Neon sign above the bar I used to [A] own.
And [Em] there's only one thing that I'm really sure of.
[D] _ _ [A] I'm going to hear it when [D] my savior [A] calls me home. _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] Well, we left out a lot of stuff. _
We left out farms, mother, [A] prison, trucks, trains.
_ [D] Getting drunk thanks to Coe.
Dead dogs like old chef.
And a big holiday like [A] Christmas, say.
With all due respect, you can't [E] have a good country [D] song without
[G#] mother, prison, [G] farms, trucks, trains, Christmas, dead [D] dogs like old chef.
And getting drunk, so here's the last verse.
_ _ _ [A] Ever [G] since the dog got drunk and [D] died
and mama [G] went to prison,
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Em] around [D] this farm, [A] it's been the [G] _
same.
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _
John, you know, when mom [Em] broke out [G] last Christmas,
_ _ she drove a damn old getaway laundry [D] truck [A] right into [G] a train.
_ _ _ But I'm _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ [G] happy when you _ _ let me _ _ _ _
[D] find her standing [A] in [G] the rain.
_ _ _ _ _ [C] You don't have to meet [Em] her, [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ but you _ never even [D] call me by [C] my name.
_ [D] _ [Bm] _ [A] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _
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