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[00:01.29]It was all that I could do to keep from cryin'
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[00:11.17]Sometimes it seems so useless to remain
[00:17.35]
[00:20.98]You don't have to call me darlin', darlin'
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[00:30.17]You never even call me by my name.
[00:36.23]
[00:40.18]You don't have to call me Waylon Jennings
[00:44.93]
[00:48.80]And you don't have to call me Charlie Pride.
[00:54.86]
[00:57.99]You don't have to call me Merle Haggard, anymore.
[01:05.42]
[01:07.80]Even though your on my fightin' side.
[01:15.36]And I'll hang around as long as you will let me
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[01:24.92]And I never minded standin' in the rain.
[01:31.98]
[01:34.61]You don't have to call me darlin', darlin'
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[01:43.61]You never even call me by my name.
[01:49.56]
[01:52.75]I've heard my name a few times in your phone book
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[02:01.56]I've seen it on signs where I've laid
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[02:10.50]But the only time I know,
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[02:15.25]I'll hear David Allan Coe
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[02:19.56]Is when Jesus has his final judgement day.
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[02:28.00]So I'll hang around as long as you will let me
[02:34.38]
[02:37.50]And I never minded standin' in the rain. No,
[02:47.32]You don't have to call me darlin', darlin'
[02:54.36]
[02:55.86]You never even  call me by my name.
[03:02.42]
[03:05.05]Well, a friend of mine named Steve Goodman wrote that song
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[03:08.61]and he told me it was the perfect country and western song
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[03:13.05]I wrote him back a letter and told him it was NOT the perfect
[03:15.92]country and western song because he hadn't said anything about
[03:19.02]Momma, or trains, or trucks, or prison, or gettin' drunk.
[03:28.76]
[03:31.14]Well, he sat down and wrote another verse to the song and he sent
[03:34.08]it to me and after reading it,
[03:36.26]I realized that my friend had written
[03:39.14]the perfect country and western song.
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[03:41.89]And I felt obliged to include it
[03:43.70]on this album. The last verse goes like this here:
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[03:49.32]Well, I was drunk the day my Mom got outta prison.
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[03:58.58]And I went to pick her up in the rain.
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[04:07.45]But, before I could get to the station in my pickup truck
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[04:17.94]She got runned over by a damned old train.
[04:23.97]
[04:25.40]So I'll hang around as long as you will let me
[04:31.03]
[04:34.41]And I never minded standin' in the rain. No,
[04:43.03]
[04:43.77]You don't have to call me darlin', darlin'
[04:51.84]
[04:52.65]You never even call me, I wonder why you don't call me
[05:00.40]
[05:01.09]Why don't you ever call me by my name.