GDG
It was all that I could do to keep from cryin'
CDG
Sometimes it seems so useless to remain
CDGEm
You don't have to call me darlin', darlin'
GDCG
You never even call me by my name
GDG
You don't have to call me Waylon Jennings
CDG
And you don't have to call me Charlie Pride
CDGEm
And you don't have to call me Merle Haggard...anymore
A7D
Even though you're on my fightin' side
Chorus:
CG
And I'll hang around as long as you will let me
CDG
'Cause I never minded standin' in the rain
CDGEm
You don't have to call me Darlin', Darlin'
GDCG
But you never even call me by my name
GDG
Well I've seen my name a few times in your phone book
CDG
And I've seen it on the signs where I've played
CDGEm
But the only time I know I'll hear "David Allen Coe"
A7D
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:"
GDG
Well I was drunk the day my Momma got out of prison
CDG
And I went to pick her up in the rain
CDGEm
But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck
A7D
My Momma, she got run over by a damned old train
Chorus:
CDG
So I'll hang around just as long as you will let me
CDG
'Cause I never minded standing in the rain
CDGEm
You don't have to call me darlin', darlin'
GD
But you never even call me...
GEm
I wonder why you don't call me...
GDCG
Why don't you even call me by my name?
This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.