Featuring the hits "You Never Even Called Me By My Name," "Longhaired Redneck" and "Willie, Waylon and Me," this 10-track compilation of mid-'70s material from DAC is all you need to know about the ex-con turned country con-man/songwriter. He was one of country's more intriguing egos from the '70s
Lyrics:

Divers Do It Deeper
By David Allan Coe

IT WAS TOO COLD TO STAY
IN THE NORTH AND LA
SEEMED THE MOST LIKELY PLACE I COULD STAY
THOSE MALIBU NIGHTS
AND THOSE HOLLYWOOD LIGHTS
WERE BLINDING ME
I LONG FOR A LOVER
TO HELP ME DISCOVER
THE KEY TO UNLOCK LOVE'S DOOR
WHILE DIVING THE REEF'S FOR
SHE CHANGED MY BELIEFS
AS WE MADE LOVE ON THE OCEAN'S FLOOR

DIVERS DO IT DEEPER
JOCKEYS DO IT SHORTER
BRICK LAYERS ALWAYS MAKE JUST A LITTLE BIT STRONGER
STRONGER
SAILORS DO IT WETTER
SOLDIERS DO IT BETTER
BUT COWBOYS STAY IN THE SADDLE JUST A LITTLE BIT LONGER

I MOVED FROM LA
FOR A GOOD JOB WITH PAY
RIDING RANGE FOR THE DOUBLE BAR J
TILL' THE RODEO CAME
AND I PUT IN MY NAME
FOR THE BULL RIDING CONTEST THAT DAY
THE JUDGES WERE WATCHING
BUT THEY NEVER NOTICED THE GIRL
STANDING CLOSE TO MY CHUTE
SHE PICKED ME TO WIN
I COULD TELL BY HER GRIN
AS SHE REACHED OUT
AND PATTED MY BOOT

DIVERS DO IT DEEPER
PILOTS DO IT HIGHER
BRICK LAYERS ALWAYS MAKE IT JUST A LITTLE BIT STRONGER
DOCTORS DO IT CLEANER
BIKERS DO IT MEANER
COWBOYS STAY IN THE SADDLE JUST A LITTLE BIT LONGER

DIVERS DO IT DEEPER
JOCKEYS DO IT SHORTER
BRICK LAYERS ALWAYS MAKE IT JUST A LITTLE BIT STRONGER
SAILORS DO IT WETTER
SOLDIERS DO IT BETTER
COWBOYS STAY IN THE SADDLE JUST A LITTLE BIT LONGER

Longhaired Redneck
Written By David Allan Coe/ Jimmy Rabbit

COUNTRY DEEJAYS KNOWS THAT I'M AN OUTLAW
THEY'D NEVER COME TO SEE ME IN THIS DIVE
WHERE BIKERS STARE AT COWBOYS
WHO ARE LAUGHING' AT THE HIPPIES
WHO ARE PRAYING' THEY'LL GET OUT OF HERE ALIVE

LOUDMOUTH IN THE CORNER'S GETTING' TO ME
TALKIN' 'BOUT MY EARRINGS AND MY HAIR
I GUESS HE AIN'T READ THE SIGNS THAT SAY I'VE BEEN TO PRISON
SOMEONE OUGHT TO WARN HIM
'FORE I KNOCK HIM OFF HIS CHAIR

'CAUSE MY LONG HAIR JUST CAN'T COVER UP MY REDNECK
I'VE WON EVERY FIGHT I'VE EVER FOUGHT
AND I DON'T NEED SOME TURKEY TELLING' ME THAT I AIN'T COUNTRY
SAYING' I AIN'T WORTH DAMNED
OLD TICKET THAT HE BOUGHT

'CAUSE I CAN SING ALL THEM SONGS ABOUT TEXAS
AND I STILL DO ALL THE SAD ONES THAT I KNOW
THEY TELL ME I LOOK LIKE MERLE HAGGARD
AND SOUND A LOT LIKE DAVID ALLAN COE
AND THE BARMAID IN THE LAST TOWN THAT WE PLAYED IN
KNEW THE WORDS TO EVERY SONG I'D WROTE
SHE SAID JIMMY RABBIT TURNED HER ON TO MY LAST ALBUM
JUST ABOUT THE TIME THE JUKE BOX BROKE

YEAH, JOHNNY CASH HELPED ME GET OUT OF PRISON
LONG BEFORE RODRIGUEZ STOLE THAT GOAT
I'VE BEEN THE RHINESTONE COWBOY FOR SO LONG I CAN'T REMEMBER
AND I CAN DO YOU EVERY SONG
HANK WILLIAMS EVER WROTE

AND I CAN SING ALL THEM SONGS ABOUT TEXAS
AND I STILL DO ALL THE SAD ONES THAT I KNOW
I CAN'T HELP IT, I LOOK LIKE MERLE HAGGARD
AND I SOUND A LOT LIKE DAVID ALLAN COE

BUT THE COUNTRY D.J.'S ALL THINK I'M AN OUTLAW
AND THEY'D NEVER COME TO SEE ME IN THIS DIVE
WHERE BIKERS STARE AT COWBOYS
WHO ARE LAUGHING' AT THE HIPPIES
WHO ARE PRAYING' THEY'LL GET OUT OF HERE ALIVE

THE LOUDMOUTH IN THE CORNER'S GETTING' TO ME
TALKIN' 'BOUT MY EARRINGS AND MY HAIR

You Never Even Called Me By My Name
Well it was all that I could do to keep from cryin'
Sometimes it seemed so useless to remain
But you don't have to call me darlin' darlin'
You never even call me by my name
You don't have to call me Waylon Jennings
And you don't have to call me Charley Pride
And you don't have to call me Merle Haggard anymore
Even though you're on my figtin' 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 call me by my name

Well I've heard my name a few times in your phonebook (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 judgement day
So I'll hang around...

(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 told him
It was not the percfect 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
And I felt at last obliged to itself 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 a pickup truck
She got run'd over by a damned old train
And I'll hang around...

Willie Wallon And M
I heard The Burritos out in California could fly higher than The Byrds
Roger McGuinn had a 12 string guitar it was like nothing I'd ever heard
And The Eagles flew in from the west coast like The Byrds they were trying to be free
While in Texas the talk turned to Outlaws like Willie and Waylon and me

Hey well that they say Texas music is in the make
And we've been making music that is free
Doing one night stands and playing with our bands Willie Waylon and me
(Oh Mad Dog)
[ harmonica - steel ]
They say The Beatles were just the beginning of everything music could be
Just like The Stones I was rolling along like a ship lost out on the sea
And Joplin would die for the future and Dylan would write poetry
And in Texas the talk turned to Outlaws like Willie and Waylon and me

Hey my name is David Allan Coe and I'm from Dallas Texas
They say Texas music is in the make
And we've been making music that is free
Doing one night stands and playing with our bands Willie Waylon and me
[ piano - guitar ]
I heard The Burritos out in California...

A Sad Country Song
IF YOU'RE FEELING LONELY
AND THINK YOU'RE THE ONLY
ONE LEFT
THAT'S ALONE IN A BAR
IF NEED SOMEBODY
WITH SHOULDERS TO CRY ON
WELL BABY I'M NOT VERY FAR

Chorus:
JUST LOOK FOR MY NAME ON A JUKEBOX
WHEN YOU'RE TIRED AND FEELING ALONE
PUT IN A DIME
AND I'LL TAKE THE TIME
TO SING YOU
A SAD COUNTRY SONG

IF YOU STARTED DRINKING
STILL CAN'T STOP THINKING
ABOUT ALL THOSE LONG NIGHTS ALONE
IF TEAR DROPS START FALLING
AND YOU KEEP ON CALLING
TO FIND OUT THERE'S NOBODY HOME

Chorus:
JUST LOOK FOR MY NAME ON A JUKEBOX
WHEN YOU'RE TIRED AND FEELING ALONE
PUT IN A DIME
AND I'LL TAKE THE TIME
TO SING YOU
A SAD COUNTRY SONG

Would You Be My Lady
By David Allan Coe

WOULD YOU HOLD ON TO MY HAND WHEN I GET LONELY
COULD I COME TO YOU WHENEVER I'M IN NEED
WOULD YOU ALWAYS HAVE A PLACE FOR ME TO LAY MY BODY DOWN
WOULD YOU BE MY LADY, IN THE MORNING
WOULD YOU BE LADY

WOULD YOU WALK WITH ME ACROSS THE BRIDGES I FORGOT TO BURN
COULD YOU FACE THE FUTURE LOOKING AT MY PAST
IF I TOOK THE TIME TO TEACH YOU ALL THE THINGS YOU'LL NEED TO LEARN
TO BE MY LADY, WHEN I NEED YOU
WOULD YOU BE MY LADY

DOES IT MATTER TO YOU THAT YOU'RE NOT MY FIRST LOVE
WOULD YOU LET A THING LIKE THAT STAND IN YOUR WAY
IF I SAID YOU WAS THE WOMAN THAT COULD EASE MY TROUBLED MIND
WOULD YOU BE MY LADY, WHEN I NEED YOU
WOULD YOU BE MY LADY

WOULD YOU WALK WITH ME ACROSS THE BRIDGES I FORGOT TO BURN
COULD YOU FACE THE FUTURE LOOKING AT MY PAST
IF I TOOK THE TIME TO TEACH YOU ALL THINGS YOU'LL NEED TO LEARN
TO BE MY LADY, IN THE MORNING
WOULD YOU BE MY LADY

WOULD YOU ALWAYS HAVE A PLACE FOR ME TO LAY MY BODY DOWN

Just To Prove My Love For You
I'd walk across Kansas in a New York minute climb the Colorado mountains in the fall
Crawl through Arizona like a flatland lizard if I thought it'd do me any good at all
I could swim Lake Erie with my hands tied behind me
Eat a West Virginia coal miner's shoes
Drink the Mississippi River if it took a mouth of Sundays just to prove my love for you
I remember well the first time that I kissed you
Cause the things ain't been the same ever since
You got me thinkin' I could eat a ten penny nail and spit out a barbed wire fence
Now there ain't a livin' creature gonna evert come between us
I'd fight lions snakes and gorillas too
And if that ain't enough we'll start all over just to prove my love for you
[ fiddle - steel ]
I could ride my pony through the eye of a hurricane climb Mount Everest on a string
Jump Niagara Falls in a burnin' barrel and bring you back a hoop smoke ring
Wrestle alligators in the Okefenokee there's nothin' I wouldn't do
If you just say the word I'll catch that Great Speckled Bird and bring it back to you
I remember well the first time...
I'd walk across Kansas in a New York minute...

Lately I've been Thinking To Much Lately
By David Allan Coe

Lately I've been thinking too much lately
I've been stayin' kinda stoned
Maybe I need someone who can make me
Feel like I'm not making it alone
Lately you've been colder than the weather
Whether love was right or love was wrong
Once you told me there was no one better
Now you say you're better off alone.

Yesterday has ran into tomorrow
Wrecking every dream we've ever known
Even though we're lying here together in this bed
I believe we're laying here alone.
Lately I've been thinking too much lately

Lately I've been drivin' myself crazy
Lately this old house ain't been no home
I thought you were something to hold on to
When I could not make it on my own
Lately you've been more than I can handle
Lately I can't handle being stoned
Maybe I need someone who can make me
Feel like I'm not making it alone.

Would You Lay With Me (In A Field Of Stone)
Would you lay with me in a field of stone
If my needs were strong would you lay with me
Should my lips grow dry would you wet them dear
In the midnight hour if my lips were dry
Would you go away to another land
Walk a thousand miles through the burning sand
Wipe the blood away from my dying hand if I give myself to you

Would you bathe with me in the stream of life
When the moon is full will you bathe with me
Will you still love me when I'm down and out
In my time of trials will you stand by me
Would you go away...
Would you lay with me in a field of stone
If my needs were strong would you lay with me

Face To Face
By David Allan Coe

FACE TO FACE TOE TO TOE
WHERE WE'LL STOP HEAVEN KNOWS
ARM IN ARM CHEEK TO CHEEK
WHOSE TO BLAME?
HAND IN HAND HEART TO HEART
WE NEVER SHOULD HAVE LET THIS START
BUT ITS TO LATE, WE SHARED IT ALL
SO WE'LL JUST HAVE TO SHARE THE BLAME!
I CAN FEEL YOUR BODY TREMBLE
AS I HOLD YOU IN MY ARMS
FOR YOU KNOW ANOTHER WOMAN HAS MY NAME
NOW SHE KNOWS ITS YOU AND ME
BUT SHE DON'T WANT TO SET ME FREE
WE'VE SHARED IT ALL NOW ITS TIME TO SHARE THE BLAME!