Sometimes, ya just need a little David Allan Coe.
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 outta here alive
The loud mouth in the corner’s gettin’ to me
Talking ’bout my earrings and my hair
I guess he ain’t read the signs that say I 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 red neck
I’ve won every fight, I’ve ever fought
Hey, I don’t need some turkey telling me that I ain’t country
And sayin’ I ain’t worth the damned ol’ 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 Allen Coe
And the bar maid 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 jukebox 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 Allen Coe…
But the country deejays, 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 loud mouth in the corner’s gettin’ to me
Talking ’bout my earrings and my hair
I knew David a little when I was young. Always enjoyed his music and went with my older brother to catch him in concert in Salt Lake City a few years back. Had a good time. I like to think about him sometimes and all of the wives that he had back when I knew him. Quite a character, quite the character, he hated $50 bills and back then, that was a lot of money. Every time he came across one, he gave it to the nearest pretty girl. I think that helped him with his wives issues.
Im still up here in Echo, Utah working on the old Kozy. It’s definitely still old and broken but it’s getting better. We’re shooting another movie here in a couple of weeks and I’m finishing up one of the first of these tiny house cabins in the back.
I like reading your writing.
– Donald
Just saw him at the Iron Horse Saloon in Ormond Beach, FL. Better catch him soon before he hangs it up.