"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 run'd over by a damned old train"'You Never Even Called Me By My Name,' David Allan Coe (1978)
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"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 run'd over by a damned old train"'You Never Even Called Me By My Name,' David Allan Coe (1978)
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actcraft2010at 10-12-2008
I seriously thought Merle Haggard sang "You Never Even Called Me by My Name".
dpirie1996at 10-12-2008
'You Never Even Called Me By My Name,' David Allan Coe (1978)
That is a STEVE GOODMAN song, same guy who wrote "GO CUBS GO" and "CITY OF NEW ORLEANS".
thefox263at 10-12-2008
Ok... really... How is 'You Never Even Called me by my name not #1?... It's the perfect country and western song...
funkyfrankie202at 10-12-2008
It is a steve goodman song, but david allen coe sang it. and i thought that it was called "The perfect country western song" not you never even called me by my name....
wcum99at 10-12-2008
I used to wait to hear that song at "Lone Star Steakhouse" The wait staff would all get together and sing it when it was someones birthday, I thought is was really fun.
j461mzat 8-19-2009
I still miss the Lone Star..It was so much fun always. Even Mike Culvert as the chickenman was a class act.
Hey SeXXXy!!!at 10-12-2008
love this song! funny i was listening to it right before i got outta my truck and came to the computer and saw this.
cubby77267at 10-12-2008
No, no, no. David Allan Coe sang the song, and would like to pretend that he wrote it, BUT HE DID NOT WRITE IT!!!! It was written by Steve Goodman and John Prine.
AmAnDaat 2-11-2009
DAC did NOT pretend he wrote the song, he even give Steve Goodman credit for writing the song IN the song.
Lisaat 10-12-2008
It's not "mom" in this song, it's "I was drunk the day my MAMA got out of prison." Every good Southern boy calls his mother "Mama."
uafreebirdat 10-12-2008
This should be number one. It is the perfect country/western song.
lonestarpr2at 8-01-2009
Not only should it be #1, but "If That Ain't Country" by DAC makes my list too.
godetat 12-02-2008
Seriously? Number 6? For the *perfect* country and western song. Tsk, tsk, tsk to the list makers who lack both a sense of humor and apparently, a sense of history.
Beccaat 2-12-2009
David Allan Coe did not write the song he himself admits this...."A good friend of mine name Steve Goodman wrote this song..." der...listen to it sometime!!