You Never Even Call Me By My Name chords by Steve Goodman

Chords with lyrics

Key: G+G

🎸 Intro:

e|-------|--7---7----|--5---5----|--3---3---3p2p0-|------------|-3----|
BB|-------|-----------|-----------|----------------|------------|-0----|
G+G|-4-5-6-|-7---7---7-|-5---5---5-|-4---4----------|------------|-0----|
D MajorD|-------|-----------|-----------|----------------|------------|-0----|
A augmentedA|-------|-----------|-----------|----------------|-5--3--2--0-|------|
E MajorE|-------|-----------|-----------|----------------|------------|-3----|


🎸 Verse 1:
    G+G        D MajorD        G+G
It was all that I could do to keep from cryin'
  G+G         D MajorD      G+G   G7G7
Sometimes it seems so useless to remain
C majorC                 G+G
You're the one who always tried to change me
  G+G        D MajorD        G+G   G7G7
And that is why I'll always stay the same

🎸 Chorus:
     C majorC                G+G
And I'll hang around as long as you will let me
G+G       D MajorD        G+G   G7G7
I never minded standin' in the rain
C majorC                  G+G
You don't have to call me "darlin'", darlin'
    G+G     D MajorD     G+G
But you never even call me by name


🎸 Verse 2:
G+G         D MajorD       G+G
You don't have to call me Waylon Jennings
  G+G         D MajorD        G+G   G7G7
No you don't have to call me Charlie Pride
  C majorC                G+G
And you don't have to call me Merle Haggard, anymore
   G+G           D MajorD       G+G
Even though you know you're on my fightin' side


🎸 Chorus:
     C majorC                G+G
And I'll hang around as long as you will let me
G+G       D MajorD        G+G   G7G7
I never minded standin' in the rain
C majorC                  G+G
You don't have to call me "darlin'", darlin'
    G+G     D MajorD     G+G
But you never even call me by name

C'mon now
🎸 Solo:
|| G+G | D MajorD | G+G | G+G ||
|| G+G | D MajorD | G+G | G7G7 ||
|| C majorC | C majorC | G+G | G+G ||
|| G+G | D MajorD | G+G | G+G ||


🎸 Verse 3:
   G+G       D MajorD        G+G
I've seen my name a few times in the phonebook (hello, hello, hello)
      G+G          D MajorD       G+G   G7G7
And on the neon sign above the bar I used to own
     C majorC               G+G
There is only one thing that I'm really sure of
       G+G        D MajorD        G+G
I'm going to hear it when my Savior calls me home


🎸 Chorus:
          C majorC                G+G
'Til that day I'll hang around as long as you will let me
G+G       D MajorD        G+G   G7G7
I never minded standin' in the rain
C majorC                  G+G
You don't have to call me "darlin'", darlin'
    G+G     D MajorD     G+G
But you never even call me by name


Tag:
C majorC
It's not her heart lord, it's her mind
      G+G
She didn't mean to be unkind
    G+G     D MajorD       C majorC  G+G
And you never even call me by my na____me


Bye, baby


NOTES:

The recording of this is pitch-adjusted so it's somewhere in between F#F# and G. If you want to play with
the album you'll have to figure out the tuning. The intro tab here is approximate and a variation on what
Goodman plays. It's not note-for-note accurate, but it's not too far off and in the spirit of what he plays.

Chord charts

🎸 Verse:
|| G+G | D MajorD | G+G | G+G ||
|| G+G | D MajorD | G+G | G7G7 ||
|| C majorC | C majorC | G+G | G+G ||
|| G+G | D MajorD | G+G | G7G7 ||

🎸 Chorus:
|| C majorC | C majorC | G+G | G+G ||
|| G+G | D MajorD | G+G | G7G7 ||
|| C majorC | C majorC | G+G | G+G ||
|| G+G | D MajorD | G+G | G+G ||