Well it was all that I could do to keep from cryin'   Sometimes it seems so useless to remain   You don't have to call me darlin', darlin'   You never even call 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 fightin' side      So I'll hang around as long as you will let me   And I never minded standin' in the rain   You don't have to call me darlin', darlin   You never even call me by my name      Spoken:   Well, you know me and The Possum Eatin' Cowboys have been playin this song for a long time out there on the road. It's a touchin little Steve Goodman number 'bout trains and trucks and mamas and prison and gettin' drunk. So anyway, me and the boys got together and we asked Mr. David Allen Coe and a few of our other heroes if they wouldn't mind singin' with us on what has proven itself to be the perfect country western song.      I was drunk the day my mama 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      So I'll hang around as long as you will let me   And I never minded standin' in the rain   You don't have to call me darlin', darlin'   You never even call me....   Well I wonder why you don't call me....   Why don't you ever call me by my name   By name