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 momma, or trains, or trucks,
or prison or gettin' drunk. Well, he sat down and
wrote another verse to this song and he sent it to me and
after reading it I realized 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 momma got out of prison,
And I went to pick her up in the rain.
But before I could get to the station to pick her up in my pick-up truck
She got runned over by a damned old train
- David Allan Coe, "You Never Called Me By My Name"
ryan_dipietro:
Motherfucking word. Shit man, if you can play a country song backwards and the dudes life isn't absolutly perfect, it osn't any good.