"I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison..."

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"...And I went to pick her up in the rain
But before I could get to the station in the pick-up truck
She got runned over by a damned old train"

AKA
Where is the love for DAVID ALLAN COE???
(and the friend of his Steve Goodman who wrote "You Never Even Called Me By My Name")

― I got the job because I was so mean, while somehow appearing so kind. (AaronHz), Monday, 14 March 2005 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

"...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 realized that my friend had written the perfect country and western song."

― I got the job because I was so mean, while somehow appearing so kind. (AaronHz), Monday, 14 March 2005 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Side question: If "You Never Even Called Me By My Name" is not the perfect country and western song, then what is?

― I got the job because I was so mean, while somehow appearing so kind. (AaronHz), Monday, 14 March 2005 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

my only brush with fame. David Allen Coe is my brothers best friends cousin! We're nearly related. Asshole never sends me Christmas cards.

― biz, Monday, 14 March 2005 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

If "You Never Even Called Me By My Name" is not the perfect country and western song, then what is?

mathematically and scientifically speaking, i believe that title is shared by "the wild side of life" and "it wasn't god who made honky tonk angels."

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 14 March 2005 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

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― I got the job because I was so mean, while somehow appearing so kind. (AaronHz), Monday, 14 March 2005 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Coe stories:
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― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 14 March 2005 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

isn't this the guy that sang "Nigger Hatin' Me"? or is that a rumor?

― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Monday, 14 March 2005 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

"I need to renew my friendship with Jim Beam"
"If you ain't supposed to do it, I will"
"I guess he ain't read the sign that say I been to prison, someone oughta warn him before I knock him off his chair."

― I got the job because I was so mean, while somehow appearing so kind. (AaronHz), Monday, 14 March 2005 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Saw Coe play a honky tonk down south one night.
Big drunk guy kept being loud and stupid during the songs and at one point during "Would You Lay With Me" the guy hollered "This is faggot music!"
Coe nonchalantly stepped down from the stage, approached the guy and knocked him cold with his guitar - smashing it.
He turned, went back to the stage and finished the song.
A roadie brought him another guitar.

― I got the job because I was so mean, while somehow appearing so kind. (AaronHz), Monday, 14 March 2005 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Your recent article comparing me to Merle Haggard was uncalled for, full of lies, and total bullshit [Soundbites, July 21]. I'm disappointed in your treatment of me, a native Ohioan. To have stayed out of prison since 1967 and to have accomplished all I have accomplished is truly a miracle. I don't mind your criticisms. However, let's get the facts straight.
I do not own or have anything to do with the more than 20 or so websites that use my name. I've never seen a website, and I'm not into selling any kind of merchandise, nor do I receive money for anything sold on these websites.
I've never sung or recorded any song in my life called "My Wife Ran Off With a Nigger" or "Nigger Hatin' Me." That is an outright lie. I wrote a song called "If That Ain't Country" with the line "Workin' like a nigger for my room and board," and I wrote a song called "Nigger Fuckers."
However, I have written songs for Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, George Jones, Johnny Paycheck, Elvis Presley, Tammy Wynette, Tanya Tucker, Kid Rock, and Uncle Kracker, along with many others. I own my own record label called Coe-Pop Records, which is based in Cleveland.
As for my Rebel guitar, it was given to me by Dimebag Darrell of Pantera for my 62nd birthday. Merle Haggard and I are friends, and had he shown up for this show, I'm sure he would have felt the same disgust I felt after reading your article.

David Allan Coe
ex-convict from Akron

― I got the job because I was so mean, while somehow appearing so kind. (AaronHz), Monday, 14 March 2005 23:29 (twenty-one years ago)

"Now ladies and gentlemen
"I know that David Allen Coe thought he had the perfect country and western song
"But you don't have to talk about drinking, or prison, or dying, or divorce
"All you have to talk about is the basic, deep-down human emotion we all feel inside
"That's why this is the perfect country and western song"

-- Hank Williams Jr., "I'd Love to Knock the Hell Out of You"

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 14 March 2005 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

So what magazine did Coe write that letter to? Reader's Digest?

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 14 March 2005 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.clevescene.com/issues/2004-08-04/news/letters.html

― I got the job because I was so mean, while somehow appearing so kind. (AaronHz), Monday, 14 March 2005 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Love this song, it's a gem.

However, the DAC-tough guy/ex-convict thing (see salutation to letter above) is so lame and overdone. Just watch the scenes in the "Heartworn Highways" DVD of him playing and talking. He's about as scary as Maybelle Carter.

― Keith C (kcraw916), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 00:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Best thing he ever did: "Two Tone Brown"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't really vouche for any of his other stuff, but this song is probably my all time favorite bar sing-a-long song. Super classic.

However, his letter seems really strange, especially the part where he is all "How dare you call me racist....and I wrote a song called N*gger Fuckers" WTF?

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude's not really all there....

― I got the job because I was so mean, while somehow appearing so kind. (AaronHz), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

He may not even be on the same block as "all there."

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 02:26 (twenty-one years ago)

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