You Never Even Called Me by My Name, as performed by David Allen Coe, is a stone cold country classic.
He gives us a couple of verses and a rousing chorus and then says
Well, a friend of mine named Steve Goodman wrote that song and he told me it was the perfect country and western song
I wrote him back a letter, and I told him it was not the perfect country and western song
Because he hadn't said anything at all about
Mama,
or trains,
or trucks,
or prison,
or gettin' drunk
Well, he sat down and wrote another verse to the song and he sent it to me
And after reading it, I realised that my friend had written the perfect country and 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 runned over by a damned old train
Life is forever imitating art. Labour governments, some people would have you believe, have been trying forever to write the perfect nanny state policy.
