You Never Even Call Me By My Name Lyrics - 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.