You Never Even Call Me By My Name lyrics

It was all that I could do to keep from crying Sometimes it seems so useless to remain But you don't have to call me darling darling 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 Charlie Pride And you don't have to call me Merle Haggard anymore Even though your on my fightin' side So I'll hang around as long as you will let me And I never minded standing in the rain No you don't have to call me darling darling You never even call me by my name 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 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 my pickup truck She got runned over by a damned old train So I'll hang around as long as you will let me And I never minded standing in the rain No you don't have to call me darling darling You never even call me I wonder why you don't call me Why don't you ever call me by my name by my name