Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Im writing a country song.

[Rick Lindsay (rolindsay]

A local band back in Lexington, KY used to do this
song but they started it with this first line; "Damn I
was drunk."

rick

--- red5hilser [at] aol.com wrote:

> Hey Ken: The perfect Country & Western song, 'You
> Never Even Called Me By My name,' was written by
> Steve Goodman and sung by David Allan Coe, starts
> out like this: 
> 
> "The day my mom got out of prision, I went down to
> pick her up in the rain,
> But before I got?to the station?in my pick-up truck,
> she got run over by that damned old train."
> 
> In the first 2 lines, y'all got mom, prison, rain,
> pick-up, train and death. How sweet it is! My 2nd
> pick would be Hank Jr's 'All My Rowdy Friends are
> Coming Down.'