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.
My parents owned a bar for 15 years in CHICAGO. And this was/is the "BAR SONG" when it came on all the regulars would go crazy. Everyone knows the words to this day. We get into it late. And when someone new is around they are absoutly shocked. Imagine 25 people all jusy knowing a song most havent heard before sadly IMO. EVERY WORD!! HAHA LOVE it. last time was my brothers bday.
@@KevXRDukeDavid Allen Coe is a member of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club I'd say he probably did some pretty wild stuff in his days. Nah, he's the real deal. I actually know a couple of Outlaws and when David sings " Country DJs knows that I'm an Outlaw" I actually asked if that was true and was told yes, David is definitely an Outlaw, a real Outlaw.
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.
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.
@@MarthaMyDear6 .....C Co 1/41 INF 2 A.D. Ft. Hood, Tx...... 11B and 11M10..... Sand Hill, Ft.Benning, GA...... Spirit of the Bayonet...I left Tx. in a hurry and like Ray and Willie say.........🦂
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!
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 !!
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.
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
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
Wonder if DAC... oh excuse me, I mean David Allan Coe... knows that he's still being worshiped for his rendition of one of the greatest ever country songs!! 🤩😍💖
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.
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.
Well, seems we are distant cousins, many times removed, I sing his songs and I'm a baritone, so, I'm happy when folks ask me "Is your middle name Allan?"
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..
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.
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!
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.
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!!!
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.
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!!💕
