you don't have to call me darlin', darlin'

[MrCoffee]

you never even call me by my name.

[datasuspect]

1. WHOOO SON!!!

break out the coldbeer, it's beer thirty~!!!!!!

you don't have
to call me
merle haggard

and you don't have
to call me
charlie pride

[SteppingRazor]

2. Ah, David Allen Coe... if only he wasn't such a racist shithead...

he'd be one of my favorite country artists.

[MrCoffee]

3. it's still the best damn country song ever

[datasuspect]

4. shel silverstein

i believe penned those racist lyrics. he and DAC were buds.

shel silverstein wrote the lyrics and music for "boy named sue" as well.

[MrCoffee]

5. steve goodman wrote the song

Coe credits him in the spoken part "My friend Steve Goodman wrote this song"

[auburngrad82]

6. Along with John Prine

There's a live version of it on No Surprises, Goodman's Anthology and he gives Prine partial credit.

[MrCoffee]

8. i never knew that.

[auburngrad82]

11. I love Goodman and Prine

Goodman was a great performer and his live performances on No Surprises with Jethro Burns are awesome. So is his "Dead Girl" medley.

I saw Prine about 2 years ago with Nanci Griffith. Boy, were they down on the Bush administration!

I loved every minute of it.

[MrCoffee]

13. Prine is great

The Great Compromise is such a fantastic song.

[auburngrad82]

14. My favorite is Paradise

and Christmas in Prison is great as well.

[datasuspect]

7. he also said he was from "dallas texas" in willie waylon and me

and he's really from ohio.

i'm referring to the more explicit songs which ruined his career.

dac was a hot property in the early 70s, the original "rhinestone cowboy" and wrote songs for many country artists.

his "dirty albums" effectively made him a pariah.

[MrCoffee]

9. steve goodman on ACL had the funniest line ever...

"I got a free calendar in the mail from the bank the other day, and i was looking at it, and i didn't realize how late it was."

[taterguy]

18. Somewhere on an old computer

I saved a blurb from a website where Prine explains the origens of the song. It was written when he and Goodman went to New York for the first time. Goodman got pissed because Prine filled the bathtub up with ice for beer. Goodman wrote a song to ease his pain and the rest is history.

Too lazy to look it up again since, well, I'm getting drunk.

The first time I heard it was when I was 12 and Goodman was the opening act for Steve Martin. They probably don't keep records on this sort of thing but I'm guessing it's the song most often played during bars last calls.

[MrCoffee]

19. when i was at UTexas, we took a weekend trip to New Orleans...

and were bar hopping in the Quarter. We walked into one bar, and they had a karaoke setup, and up on stage, singing this damn song, was a guy i went to high school with back in houston. very surreal.

[SteppingRazor]

10. I don't know what song you're referring to...

All the Johnny Rebel stuff may or may not be David Allen Coe -- there's a couple others who have more likely claims.

But it's indisputable that Coe wrote and recorded 1982's "Nigger Fucker" on his Underground album. I'm not gonna post the lyrics, I think the title speaks for itself.

[datasuspect]

12. johnny rebel was an actual guy from louisiana

and has nothing to do with DAC.

but shel silverstein helped him out with the song (and others) you mentioned.

seriously

[SteppingRazor]

15. Huh. First I've heard of that. Silverstein isn't credited on the album...

though I'm certainly familiar with Silverstein as a songwriter, not just for Boy Named Sue, but also tunes by Loretta Lynn, Dr. Hook, etc.

[datasuspect]

16. there's a lot of data scrubbing where that is concerned

i don't think anyone would WANT to be associated with that.

[Bunny]

17. You need trains, trucks, prison, mama, and gettin' drunk.

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

It is the perfect country and western song!