Standard (EADGBE)

 It was all that I could do to keep from cryin'

 Sometimes it seems so useless to remain

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 Charlie Pride

 And you don't have to call me Merle Haggard...anymore

Even though you're on my fightin' side

Chorus

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

 'Cause I never minded standin' in the rain

You don't have to call me Darlin', Darlin'

 But you never even call me by my name

 Well I've seen my name a few times in your phone book

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

 But the only time I know I'll hear "David Allen Coe"

 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:"

 Well I was drunk the day my Momma 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

 My Momma, she got run over by a damned old train

Chorus

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

 'Cause I never minded standing in the rain

You don't have to call me darlin', darlin'

 But you never even call me...

 I wonder why you don't call me...

 Why don't you even call me by my name?

There it is -- if you have questions or corrections

-mail me @:

D. Wesley Atwood

BLM-Utah State Office

Univ. of Utah - Dept. of Geography

Ph. 801-539-4241

Fax 801-539-4134