Especially if it's a certain kind of dive redneck bikere bar, you know, the kind "Where bikers stare at cowboys, who are laughing at the hippies, who are praying they'll get out of here alive.." The one I used to visit had a sign on the door. "We've LOWERED our standards.. UP YOURS !!"
Steve Goodman wrote it... he did a great performance. He also wrote City of New Orleans. Sadly he died at 36 of leukemia. No telling how many hits he would've written in his lifetime.
I saw a David Allan Coe T-shirt in the speakeasy in Peterborough, Ontario, on George Street, on a man's back. Thank goodness I started listening to David Allan Coe! I love old country music. My parents raised me on Hank Williams Jr., Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams Sr., Jim Reeves, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard, George Jones, Willie Nelson, and many more.
back in the day, i burned a CD for my huband with this song and he stopped loving her today, along with 10 others. usually these are the only two songs he ever listened to on that CD......as a matter of fact, i'd usually listen to only those two!!! great songs!
Saw him at the White Elephant Saloon in Ft. Worth in the 80's and he sang the lyrics at the end 'I wonder why you don't ball me, you never even called me by my name' the crowd went wild!
Was stationed in TX decades ago. In one of the many dive bars off base, this song was a big hit with everybody, an was in heavy rotation on the juke box. Everytime it played, everybody stopped to sing along.
The closing song almost nightly at the bar/ nightclub I ran down in Larose, LA. It also was the signal to get your girl and get ready to make some serious love.oh yeah, we were usually stoned/drunk out of our minds singing this to the top of our lungs too
Wild because I was just thinking how this came on a lot in Hammond, La when I was in the bars there. Of course the final song at our bar was always Dinosaur by Hank Jr but this one brings me back to a smoky Louisiana bar as much as any. Well…Maybe “Get Low” by the Ying Yang Twins
Monday group on Facebook David had Covid at 81 I sure hope the man pulls out of it he's a tough man but so is that crap my prayers go out to him cause there will never be another DAC !!
Fucking Legend right there. Saw him many many years ago in Ft Worth, TX. RECENTLY, it came to my attention that some no name nobody Casino security guards roughed up DAC. must have been 10 years ago, all the same, there was a time he could damn sure stand his ground. Taking advantage of elders is never good. Especially someone like DAC.
That makes me uncomfortably angry. DAC is the very soul of outlaw country, without him it wouldn't exist. Time was it would take 4-5 to have the balls to ask him to leave.
If you're a man and you stand on your own feet Make your own Way in this world vineyard that he likes you color doesn't matter when it comes to that bein big fan me years ago in mountain home Arkansas I was 17 and 54 now it's still a fan
There was Hank Williams, then there was Johnny Cash, but David Allan Coe is country for all people. The greatest of them all. I think that even David Bowie, who hated country, might have been won over had he heard David's body of work.
My first year going to Bike week in Daytona, 1986, i was at the original Iron Horse saloon in downtown residential daytona (with indoor parking for about ten panheads) and this song came on the jukebox and everyone stood up and sang along, like it was the National Anthem, so i did too, not knowing why but better to be safe than sorry. That was first day i realized that i was not a liberal. Like Ronnie said, i didnt leave the democratic party, they left me. Go ger Donald!
How can you put this guy up there as a legend when people knows what he is. A writer not. Oh maybe 2 songs to boot. Other then that a floating druggie. He lied constantly to make himself look good. So please dont put him up there with merle george jones marty waylon hank and so on.
DAC is a country rebel. I think he is the grossest dude who writes the most awesome songs. I'd love to go to one of his concerts and throw down way too many beers.
Steve Goodman wrote this song, a good Chicagoan and Cubs fan. He died way too young. He also wrote "City of New Orleans", recorded by Woodie Guthrie and covered by Willie Nelson -- which you need to listen to, if you haven't already. It's sad to think of all the great songs Steve would have written, that we will never hear, because he was taken too soon. I guess it's true, only the good die young.
That's gotta be the Longhorn Ballroom cuz he says Dallas, Texas at the end & the Longhorn was in its heydey in 74. The Sex Pistols would play there 4 years later right after Merle Haggard played there.
Boy !! You got that right !... I don't recognize the weak lame-ass garbage that passes for C&W these days.. Hank Jr kinda sums it up in his song "Those Days Are Gone" from a couple years back..
I rode from River Grove to Joliet, Illinois, in a 1956 Buick in a steady drizzle. And I can identify with these lyrics. My buddy's Mom was in the back seat. Cigarette ashes went out the vent and worked their way across the window.
Love this SONG*...saw him in Concert many, many years ago at the Fox Theatre in St. Louis, Missouri* STILL..hold this as one of the Finest Country Western songs EVER made!!!
Well, it was all That I could do to keep from crying' Sometimes it seemed so useless to remain But you don't have to call me darlin', darlin' You never even called 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 fighting' side And I'll hang around as long as you will let me And I never minded standing' in the rain But you don't have to call me darlin', darlin' You never even called me by my name Well, I've heard my name A few times in your phone book (hello, hello) And I've seen it on signs where I've played But the only time I know I'll hear "David Allan Coe" Is when Jesus has his final judgment day So I'll hang around as long as you will let me And I never minded standing' in the rain But you don't have to call me darlin', darlin' You never even called me by my name Well, a friend of mine named Steve Goodman wrote that song And he told me it was the perfect country & western song I wrote him back a letter and I told him it was not the perfect country & western song Because he hadn't said anything at all about mama 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 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 over by a damned old train And I'll hang around as long as you will let me And I never minded standing' in the rain, no But you don't have to call me darlin', darlin' You never even called me Well, I wonder why you don't call me Why don't you ever call me by my name
This was our "Tree Song" at the "Wranger" back in the 80's in Nashville! We All Loved it! It got Everyone on the dance floor dancing in line around the "tree" in the middle of the dance floor!! Such Great Memories!!💕
Parked a hearse in front of the Ryman when he got out of prison. Honesty might not make ya rich or get ya on the radio but by God it'll get ya remembered
The Outlaw all the other Outlaws couldn't stand and made fun of. Treated him like absolute shit to his face, and talked about him behind his back. He took it all and never got angry or cross at any of them, but the rest of the world has paid for it ever since.
Now this is a perfect country and western song.
distracty distracterson Absolute truth. 🦄🦄🦄
Made me laugh. Blessings
Best impressionist new to David Allen coe march 2021 and love him
Jimmie Rogers
It ain't the perfect country and western song...cause you ain't said nothin about mama...
the quickest way to get an entire bar singing is to play this song on the juke box.
Especially if it's a certain kind of dive redneck bikere bar, you know, the kind "Where bikers stare at cowboys, who are laughing at the hippies, who are praying they'll get out of here alive.." The one I used to visit had a sign on the door. "We've LOWERED our standards.. UP YOURS !!"
...or "Willin' " by Little Feat...
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When he said “WHY DON’T YOU EVER CALL ME
BY MY FUCKING NAME.”
I felt that.
gotcha bro. so gotcha
When I finish building my time machine, I will be going to this show.
Can I tag along?
im bringing the coke.
@@mridge01 I will need some gas money.
@@bootchop88 Sure, a little hash would be nice as well.
@@stpeteaustin I’m game, but we’re not using flux capacitor technology?
2024 still listening
That s fucking country music 2024 no body can sing like him ❤
The absolute pinnacle of country music, or music of any kind for that matter.
@COONHUNTER #1 Hell yeah!
Agree
@@erikheddergott5514
Ha! That word salad was delightful.
@@lance1480 My autocorrect Machine IS German and it will not except dead. Oh what a Miracle; Now it did!
@@erikheddergott5514 English is not your first language, is it champ. lol
This guy is blasted and still comes up with an absolutely perfect song!
Written by Steve Goodman in 1971, covered with love and respect by DAC
@@kathleensnow9836 Steve and John Prine. RIP Steve. And thank you for all the songs you wrote.
@@TheDriftwoodloverPrine (as I’m sure you know) uncredited, hilariously as per his request 😁
I'm a huge fan of DAVID ALLEN COE is real country music not some of this fake country music like they play today
Are you saying Florida Georgia Line isn’t real country?? 🤣🤣
I totally agree with you!!! These day they’re playing crap on the radio for County music. Ain’t that sad?
R I G H T ON..
Steve Goodman wrote it... he did a great performance. He also wrote City of New Orleans. Sadly he died at 36 of leukemia. No telling how many hits he would've written in his lifetime.
100% of country nowadays sounds like pop
Thank god they recorded this.
DAC is my drinking buddy. This song plays I drink.
David Allan Coe, at his best. We need more Outlaws in Country Music
hank 3
Willie Nelson said something like the most outlaw thing we did was get our car towed.
@@KevXRDukeMost likely because he smoked grass and didn’t hit the bottle or people in the face.
One of the greatest country songs ever!
E V E R!!
Badass. He called himself a genius and I’ll support that.
God rest Goodman and Prine. Genius.
Why don't you ever call me by my FUCKIN NAAAAMEEEE hell yeah. sing it DAC.
That part is what makes it the perfect country and western song.
I laughed my ass off when he said fucking. I would have cried laughing if he would have said mother fucking name.
I saw a David Allan Coe T-shirt in the speakeasy in Peterborough, Ontario, on George Street, on a man's back. Thank goodness I started listening to David Allan Coe! I love old country music. My parents raised me on Hank Williams Jr., Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams Sr., Jim Reeves, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard, George Jones, Willie Nelson, and many more.
This and He stopped loving her today are the two finest songs written and recorded.
Dude, that's the song I just listened to before this one. So fucking true
If your lyin im fuckin dyin brother.
LYNYRD SKYNRD > BALLARD OF CURTIS LOWE ?
You have impeccable taste in music.
back in the day, i burned a CD for my huband with this song and he stopped loving her today, along with 10 others. usually these are the only two songs he ever listened to on that CD......as a matter of fact, i'd usually listen to only those two!!! great songs!
This is by far my favorite version of this song
this show is off the charts
Amazing
The most real country song on the planet Earth 🌎 belongs in the Hall of Fame
What makes this even cooler is that this performance is from before the song was released in 1975.
David Allan Coe my favorite !
Really? Cool indeed. Thanks.
Nice observation.
This show is actually in 1975
David always had a perfect voice :)
Love David Allan Coe
They gone put you on the Map when you left this world
You gone be so popular watch out ❤
I'm a huge fan of DAVID ALLEN COE
This guy kills it!!!!
I mean DAVID ALLEN COE kills it,gotta call him by his name!!!!
my dad once sat next to him in a bar& they chatted for a WHILE before dad even caught on
He's a real honest to god outlaw with a perfect country voice and he writes some great songs, and still kicking last I heard.
Born 1939 - Died 1986. 🌹💙
oh man....that is a country song if ever there was one. thanks DAC.
Saw him at the White Elephant Saloon in Ft. Worth in the 80's and he sang the lyrics at the end 'I wonder why you don't ball me, you never even called me by my name' the crowd went wild!
Was stationed in TX decades ago. In one of the many dive bars off base, this song was a big hit with everybody, an was in heavy rotation on the juke box. Everytime it played, everybody stopped to sing along.
Unreal
I bet you were at Ft Hood, in Temple, Tx!
@@MarthaMyDear6 No. NAS Kingsville, 45 miles as the crow flies, from NAS Corpus Christi. Out in the middle of Bumphuck, TX..
Long live them Texas boys
The reason DAC is so damned good is because he just fucking belts out these bangers with such ease. He’s one of the boys 100%
That Yankee's rebel son
Me and my pupper dog here in 2024 🙋🏻♀️🐶
"Why don't you ever call me by my Fuckin' naaaaaaaaaaaame" Love it!
2022. This is still the greatest Country song of all time. Thank you, David Allan FUCKING Coe!
Watch the fuckin swearing lol
@@brandonbell5357 Thats feckin outrageous
Goddamn I LOVE David Allen Coe!!!!❤❤❤❤❤😊
@@MarthaMyDear6 he gets better with time
@@MarthaMyDear6 fuckin a
He was a true outlaw musician
The closing song almost nightly at the bar/ nightclub I ran down in Larose, LA. It also was the signal to get your girl and get ready to make some serious love.oh yeah, we were usually stoned/drunk out of our minds singing this to the top of our lungs too
Wild because I was just thinking how this came on a lot in Hammond, La when I was in the bars there. Of course the final song at our bar was always Dinosaur by Hank Jr but this one brings me back to a smoky Louisiana bar as much as any. Well…Maybe “Get Low” by the Ying Yang Twins
The perfect country western singer.
A classic! SOLID COUNTRY GOLD!
I'm a huge fan DAVID ALLEN COE
So glad I got to see DAC in the '70's ✌️❤️🌼
Look at that Les Paul Custom..❤
Hell yea..
Ugh, I know right. Just drool worthy
What song....Goodman/Prine coming up with the perfect C&W song, thank you both and David foe the delivery!
My grandma favorite
Sometimes i absolutely love the internet.
This is by far the greatest country song of all time. Along with George Jones song
Monday group on Facebook David had Covid at 81 I sure hope the man pulls out of it he's a tough man but so is that crap my prayers go out to him cause there will never be another DAC !!
@@robertdereak3572 well he did and he’s kicking ass once again!
His songs will definitely live on after he's gone
The backup singers make this version incredible. Thank you for the upload
Nice to hear REAL country!
Best version ever
Fucking Legend right there.
Saw him many many years ago in Ft Worth, TX. RECENTLY, it came to my attention that some no name nobody Casino security guards roughed up DAC. must have been 10 years ago, all the same, there was a time he could damn sure stand his ground. Taking advantage of elders is never good. Especially someone like DAC.
That makes me uncomfortably angry. DAC is the very soul of outlaw country, without him it wouldn't exist.
Time was it would take 4-5 to have the balls to ask him to leave.
Does he like us blacks
If you're a man and you stand on your own feet Make your own Way in this world vineyard that he likes you color doesn't matter when it comes to that bein big fan me years ago in mountain home Arkansas I was 17 and 54 now it's still a fan
Absolutely Love D.A.C. music in 76 I was 11 didn't know his music till the early 80s an still listen today,ch🍻rs to you David Allen Coe!!
I love this song!!! David it'll never get old. 🤠👢💜☘️
God I love David Allan Coe, and that’s it
There was Hank Williams, then there was Johnny Cash, but David Allan Coe is country for all people. The greatest of them all. I think that even David Bowie, who hated country, might have been won over had he heard David's body of work.
Gold Standard for country music ❤🎶🎸
So sorry for the infringe on your privacy. Beautiful song. How are you?
Now this is music
When country music mattered.
The original rhinestone cowboy ! 👏
"The Perfect Country & Western Song '🤠👍👍
My first year going to Bike week in Daytona, 1986, i was at the original Iron Horse saloon in downtown residential daytona (with indoor parking for about ten panheads) and this song came on the jukebox and everyone stood up and sang along, like it was the National Anthem, so i did too, not knowing why but better to be safe than sorry. That was first day i realized that i was not a liberal. Like Ronnie said, i didnt leave the democratic party, they left me. Go ger Donald!
He was so coked up 😂 what a G!
Supposedly he didn't do any drugs and rarely ever drank
@@lilsavage918d6 that’s what he said
@@lilsavage918d6 Not the sort of thing most people admit to publicly.
brilliant!
took me years to know he was doing the voices of Haggard & Charlie Pride, etc
So sorry for the infringe on your privacy. Beautiful song. Hello
DAVID ALLEN COE 4 PRESIDENT!!!!!
A true legend This man has been there and done it folks
How can you put this guy up there as a legend when people knows what he is. A writer not. Oh maybe 2 songs to boot. Other then that a floating druggie. He lied constantly to make himself look good. So please dont put him up there with merle george jones marty waylon hank and so on.
@@victoriarachelle89 He’s done it as good as any of them can’t hold his lifestyle against him
@victoriarachelle89 I mean let's be honest, he truly was an Outlaw... literally.
This man is the real deal.
DAC is a country rebel. I think he is the grossest dude who writes the most awesome songs. I'd love to go to one of his concerts and throw down way too many beers.
He sucks in concert and the songs he says he wrote he didn't write
he still tours, saw him about a year ago
@@jeffbruner4875 a friend of his named Steve Goodman wrote this song duh
@@jeffbruner4875 he gets so hammered at concerts he forgets the words to his songs lmao
@@Evan-ph7jh he sucks in concert
STILL near the Top of my List of Best Ever Country Songs..... 40 years and tickin'.....
Quit drinking you'll get 40 more
Solid country gold
More damned country than country. Thank you for every thing dac!
The best country western song ❤
Steve Goodman wrote this song, a good Chicagoan and Cubs fan. He died way too young. He also wrote "City of New Orleans", recorded by Woodie Guthrie and covered by Willie Nelson -- which you need to listen to, if you haven't already. It's sad to think of all the great songs Steve would have written, that we will never hear, because he was taken too soon. I guess it's true, only the good die young.
ARLO Guthrie
Oops! You are absolutely correct. Arlo is Woodie's son. Thanks.@@alanoneill3065
Goodman and John Prine wrote it
The best performance of this song I've ever heard..!!
This was my karaoke go to in the day. 😅
That's gotta be the Longhorn Ballroom cuz he says Dallas, Texas at the end & the Longhorn was in its heydey in 74. The Sex Pistols would play there 4 years later right after Merle Haggard played there.
They turned the longhorn into a spaceship
Bambino
This lights make me sick
Is there footage of this
An alien comes to earth...asks what's country music...we played this
Where from?
Did they like it and share some space grass?
The aliens would recognize him. DAC is from another planet for sure. Earth has been blessed to have him a while, that’s all.
I want the hat guy's job.....LOL.
Good work if you can get it.
You're not qualified.
This song is the greatest western and country song on my list!!!! True Country song are hard to find anymore.
Boy !! You got that right !... I don't recognize the weak lame-ass garbage that passes for C&W these days.. Hank Jr kinda sums it up in his song "Those Days Are Gone" from a couple years back..
The ONE and ONLY!!!
I rode from River Grove to Joliet, Illinois, in a 1956 Buick in a steady drizzle. And I can identify with these lyrics. My buddy's Mom was in the back seat. Cigarette ashes went out the vent and worked their way across the window.
Love this SONG*...saw him in Concert many, many years ago at the Fox Theatre in St. Louis, Missouri* STILL..hold this as one of the Finest Country Western songs EVER made!!!
My favorite Country song……..
So sorry for the infringe on your privacy. Beautiful song. How are you?
Well, it was all
That I could do to keep from crying'
Sometimes it seemed so useless to remain
But you don't have to call me darlin', darlin'
You never even called 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 fighting' side
And I'll hang around as long as you will let me
And I never minded standing' in the rain
But you don't have to call me darlin', darlin'
You never even called me by my name
Well, I've heard my name
A few times in your phone book (hello, hello)
And I've seen it on signs where I've played
But the only time I know
I'll hear "David Allan Coe"
Is when Jesus has his final judgment day
So I'll hang around as long as you will let me
And I never minded standing' in the rain
But you don't have to call me darlin', darlin'
You never even called me by my name
Well, a friend of mine named Steve Goodman wrote that song
And he told me it was the perfect country & western song
I wrote him back a letter and I told him it was not the perfect country & western song
Because he hadn't said anything at all about mama
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 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 over by a damned old train
And I'll hang around as long as you will let me
And I never minded standing' in the rain, no
But you don't have to call me darlin', darlin'
You never even called me
Well, I wonder why you don't call me
Why don't you ever call me by my name
Saw him in a small club in the early 90s great show.
This was our "Tree Song" at the "Wranger" back in the 80's in Nashville! We All Loved it! It got Everyone on the dance floor dancing in line around the "tree" in the middle of the dance floor!! Such Great Memories!!💕
Back in the 70's this was my favorite cassette riding in my 64 as impala!!
You have kept it
Parked a hearse in front of the Ryman when he got out of prison. Honesty might not make ya rich or get ya on the radio but by God it'll get ya remembered
Also This guy wrote and wrote and wrote so ain't nobody gonna give out no freebies this dude is the definition of grind.
With a beautiful les paul custom
Anyone wanna get drunk as fuck and keep this on repeat?
😮😮😮😮😮
My neighbors know the lyrics now.
Love it
Nailed it.
Thank you!
PERFECT
Brilliant
Sounds great!!
The Outlaw all the other Outlaws couldn't stand and made fun of. Treated him like absolute shit to his face, and talked about him behind his back. He took it all and never got angry or cross at any of them, but the rest of the world has paid for it ever since.
Legend
the Randy Macho Man Savage of outlaw country
love this song....
Charlie Pride 🇺🇸✊🏽✊🏿✊🏾✊🏾✊🏼✊
The 🐐
pure kickass awesome!