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SOL RE SOL
It was all that I could do to keep from cryin'
DO RE SOL
Sometimes it seems so useless to remain
DO RE SOL MIm
You don't have to call me darlin', darlin'
SOL RE DO SOL
You never even call me by my name
SOL RE SOL
You don't have to call me Waylon Jennings
DO RE SOL
And you don't have to call me Charlie Pride
DO RE SOL MIm
And you don't have to call me Merle Haggard...anymore
LA7 RE
Even though you're on my fightin' side
Chorus
DO SOL
And I'll hang around as long as you will let me
DO RE SOL
'Cause I never minded standin' in the rain
DO RE SOL MIm
You don't have to call me Darlin', Darlin'
SOL RE DO SOL
But you never even call me by my name
SOL RE SOL
Well I've seen my name a few times in your phone book
DO RE SOL
And I've seen it on the signs where I've played
DO RE SOL MIm
But the only time I know I'll hear "David Allen Coe"
LA7 RE
Is when Jesus has his final judgement day
Chorus
So I'll hang around...
Talk:
"Well, a friend of mine, Steve Goodman, wrote this song
and he said it was the perfect country and western song.
I wrote him back a letter and told him that it was not the
perfect country-western song because he hadn't said anything
at all about Momma, or trains, or trucks, or prison, or getting
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-western song, and I
felt obliged to include it on this album. The last verse goes
like this here:"
SOL RE SOL
Well I was drunk the day my Momma got out of prison
DO RE SOL
And I went to pick her up in the rain
DO RE SOL MIm
But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck
LA7 RE
My Momma, she got run over by a damned old train
Chorus
DO RE SOL
So I'll hang around just as long as you will let me
DO RE SOL
'Cause I never minded standing in the rain
DO RE SOL MIm
You don't have to call me darlin', darlin'
SOL RE
But you never even call me...
SOL MIm
I wonder why you don't call me...
SOL RE DO SOL
Why don't you even call me by my name?
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