Who sings "perfect country song"?
Steve King
: The last verse goes:
: "I was drunk the day my momma' goy out of prison,
: and I went to pick her up in the rain.
: But, before I got to the station in mah pickup truck,
: she got rundover by a dammed ol' train!"
: But the name of the artist escapes me right now. - sorry.
"You don't have to call me, Merle Haggard, etc."
I think the name is "Call me," and it's by David Allan Coe. I *think*
I wish I'd never read this damned message. Now I have the song in my
head.
Dean McKnight
: About 15 years ago I heard a song which described the essential elements
: of a perfect country song: pickup truck, going to jail, wife leaving, etc.
: I have been searching for it for a while now, but have found neither the
: title nor the artist. Advise please.
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: * Leo Bueno <====> leob...@gate.net *
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"You Never Even Called Me By My Name"
Performed by David Allen Coe
- Dean
LisaS...@usafa.af.mil
>
>: I think the title is "tThe Perfect Country & Western Song."
The title of the song is "Darlin"
The artist is David Allan Coe
Leo Bueno
john russell
>Leo Bueno (leob...@gate.net) wrote:
>: About 15 years ago I heard a song which described the essential elements
>: of a perfect country song: pickup truck, going to jail, wife leaving, etc.
>: I have been searching for it for a while now, but have found neither the
>: title nor the artist. Advise please.
>"You Never Even Called Me By My Name"
>Performed by David Allen Coe
No, it's "Pickup truck, Going to Jail, Wife Leaving, etc." A classic!
Performed by Allen David Dean
jr
Trotskyite
writes:
The song was "You Never Even Called Me By My Name" and was performed by
David Allen Coe. In the song, he says that he sent the song to Steve
Goodman who added the verse about:
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.
Or, words to that effect.
ConductorB
I think the title is "tThe Perfect Country & Western Song."
The last verse goes:
"I was drunk the day my momma' goy out of prison,
and I went to pick her up in the rain.
But, before I got to the station in mah pickup truck,
she got rundover by a dammed ol' train!"
But the name of the artist escapes me right now. - sorry.
--> Iligitimus Non Carborundum <--
Kelly Vogel
We sing that song in a place I have a part time job. It is a country
steakhouse. Great food!!!! Lonestar Steakhouse and Saloon
The chorus goes like this
You don't have to call me Darlin, darlin
You never even call me by my name
Gary Meyers
>About 15 years ago I heard a song which described the essential elements
>of a perfect country song: pickup truck, going to jail, wife leaving, etc.
>
>I have been searching for it for a while now, but have found neither the
>title nor the artist. Advise please.
"You Never Even Call Me By My Name" ????---David Allen Coe, words and music by..
by...,by...--Geez--either Ray Wiley Hubbard or Gary P. Nunn, wudnt it?
ObJoke:
Not original by any means, but it was the only thing on SNL last Sat that made
me AND my wife laugh out loud---and for 30 seconds:
Norm McDonald: "This week marked the 3000th performance of 'Cats'.
It was also the 3000th time a guy turned to his wife
and asked "What the hell is THIS??""
---
Gary Meyers : Usual disclaimer here
dbs...@arco.com : My opinions, etc. etc.
Thomas Moorer
I went down to pick her up in the pouring rain.
but, before I got to the station in the pick-up truck.
She got run over by a damned ole train."
"You don't have to call me darlin', darlin'"
by David Allan Coe
these were additional lyrics suggested to him by
the late great Steve Goodman ("City of New Orleans")
William J. Evans
: We sing that song in a place I have a part time job. It is a country
: steakhouse. Great food!!!! Lonestar Steakhouse and Saloon
This is in, perhaps, New York City?
-- Captain Nitpick
Brent Lamb
>From: leob...@gate.net (Leo Bueno)
>Subject: Who sings "perfect country song"?
>Date: 7 Oct 1994 05:37:13 GMT
>About 15 years ago I heard a song which described the essential elements
>of a perfect country song: pickup truck, going to jail, wife leaving, etc.
>I have been searching for it for a while now, but have found neither the
>title nor the artist. Advise please.
David Allen Coe's "You Never Call Me by My Name" has recently been re-released
by Doug Supernaw and is palying on all the country radio stations. It is not
as good as the original.
Jennifer K. Ludwick
is 'Why don't you ever call me by my name?' Which has nothing to do with
the last verse, it was just tagged on at the end to make it the 'perfect
country song'.
--
Jennifer Ludwick
Clemson University Computer Science Dept.
sam stuhlman
: : I think the title is "tThe Perfect Country & Western Song."
: : The last verse goes:
[snip , snip]
It's a Steve Goodman song. He let David Allen Coe use it and wrote the
last verse at Coe's urging, just like it says in the song. It's called
"you Never Even Call Me By My Name" and was meant to be a satire on
Conway Twitty songs that always call a woman "darling" or "honey" and
never by their names.