You Never Even Call Me By My Name — текст песни (Doug Supernaw)

Writer: Steve Goodman

It was all I could do to keep from cryin`
Sometimes it seemed so useless to remain
But you don`t have to call me darlin` darlin`
You never even call me by my name.

You don`t have to call me Waylon Jennings
And you don`t have to call me Charley Pride
And you don`t have to call me Merle Haggard anymore
Even though you`re on my fighting side.

And I`ll hang around as long as you will let me
And I never minded standin` in the rain
But you don`t have to call me darlin` darlin`
You never even call me by my name.

Spoken:

Well, you know me and The Possum Eatin` Cowboys have
been playin` this song for a long time out there on the
road. It`s a touchin` little Steve Goodman number `bout
trains and trucks and mamas and prison and gettin` drunk.
So anyway, me and the boys got together and we asked
Mr. David Allen Coe and a few of our other heroes if they
wouldn`t mind singin` with us on what has proven itself to
be the perfect country western song.

I was drunk the day my mama got out of prison
And I went to pick her up in the rain
But before I could get to the station in the pickup truck
She got ran over by a damned old train.

So I`ll hang around as long as you will let me
And I never minded standin` in the rain
You don`t have to call me darlin` darlin`
You never even call me....
Well I wonder why you don`t call me...
Why don`t you ever call me by my name.