Standard (EADGBE)

Well it was all that 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 figtin' side

And I'll hang around as long as you will let me

and I never minded standingin the rain.

But you don't have to call me darlin' darlin'

you never even call me by my name

Well I've heard my name a few times in your phonebook (hello hello)

And I've seen it on signs where I've played

But the only time I know I'll hear David Allan Coe

Is when Jesus has his final judgement day

So I'll hang around as long as you will let me

and I never minded standing in the rain.

But you don't have to call me darlin' darlin'

you never even call me by my name

(Well a friend of mine named Steve Goodman wrote that song, and he told me it was

the perfect country and western song

I wrote him back a letter and told him

It was not the percfect country and western song

Because he hadn't said anything at all about mama

Or trains or trucks or prison or gettin' drunk

Well he sat down and wrote another verse to the song and he sent it to me

And after reading it I realized

That my friend had written the perfect country and western song

And I felt at last obliged to itself the last verse goes like this here)

Well I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison

And I went to pick her up in the rain

But before I could get to the station in a pickup truck

She got run'd over by a damned old train

And I'll hang around as long as you will let me

and I never minded standing in the rain.

But you don't have to call me darlin' darlin'

you never even called me,

well I wonder why you don't call me,

why dont you ever call me by my name.

I looked for this song in a lot of places but never could find it, so i learned it

by ear. I still haven't quit got the part where he talks about Steve Goodman but

I'll add it as soon as i figure it out or if one of you know the cords please feel

free to email them to me. Thanks.