DAVID ALLAN COE
LONG HAIRED REDNECK
(Columbia KC-33916)
March/1976
Produced by Billy Sherrill & Ron Bledsoe
Billy Sanford, John Christopher, Tommy Allsup, Reggie Young - guitar
Pete Drake - steel/dobro
Mike Leech, Henry Strzelecki, Ted Reynolds - bass
Kenny Malone, Ralph Gallant, Buster Phillips - drums
Hargus Pig Robbins, Ron Oates - piano
Buddy Spicher - violin/fiddle/mandolin
Charlie McCoy - harmonica/vibes
The Nashville String Machine - strings
Vocal accompaniment by The Nashville Edition and The Jordanaires
Recorded:
1975, Columbia Studio, Nashville
1.
LONGHAIRED REDNECK
(David A. Coe - Jimmy Rabbitt)
« © '76 Careers Music, BMI / Lotsa Music, BMI »
Country DJ's knows that I'm an outlaw
They'd never come to see me in this dive
Where bikers stare at cowboys who are laughin' at the hippies
Who are prayin' they'll get out of here alive
The loud mouth in the corner's gettin' 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
Sayin' 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 wrote
She said Jimmy Rabbitt 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 a 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 like Merle Haggard and sound a lot like David Allan Coe
But the country DJ's all think I'm an outlaw...
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2.
WHEN SHE'S GOT ME
(David A. Coe)
« © '75 Careers Music, BMI »
Last night she made it plain she didn't want me today I woke later and alone
Tomorrow I'll be turnin' to the bottle tonight I'll be cold and all alone
She only broke my heart Lord not my spirit she only took my body not my soul
My skin still burns in places where she touched me
And when she touched me Lord I lost my self-control
When she's got me where she wants me she don't want me
I'm just another game she likes to play
I don't think I can make it through tomorrow
I almost never made it through today
She sure knew how to love me when she loved me
When I was weak she always came on strong
She knew just what it took to drive me crazy
And she knew how much I hate to be alone
When she's got me where she wants me
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3.
REVENGE
(David A. Coe - Jimmy Sadd)
« © '76 Careers Music, BMI »
Judy I feel weary now older than a man of thirty-three
The gates of hell just opened after twenty years the warden says I'm free
Revenge was all I wanted when I killed the man that took your life that day
I've had my satisfaction but the price was more than love should have to pay
Lords knows you weren't no lady and the witnesses all swore you was to blame
And the way you teased the menfolk
The jury all agreed you knew no shame knew no shame
Well I'm glad that you can't see me now
You'd probably say that I do not look my best
Those lawyers took my money that Louisiana road gang took the rest
And Judy I can't even conjure up your picture in my mind today
Lately I've been thinkin' what a fool I was to love you anyway
Lords knows you weren't no lady and the witnesses all swore you was to blame
And the way you teased the menfolk the jury all agreed you knew no shame
Well it all seems kinda useless as I place these flowers on your grave today
I don't know what I'm doin' here I've forgotten all the things I came to say
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4.
TEXAS LULLABY
(David A. Coe - Ann McGowan)
« © '76 Careers Music, BMI »
See those tumbleweeds a blowin' Lord it makes me wanna cry
It reminds me of my daddy and that Texas Lullaby
See those cactus flowers bloomin' like the twinkle in his eye
Every time he started singin' the old Texas Lullaby
Yipee yi little doggie roll along roll along
Yipee yi little doggie take me home take me home
It's so cold on the desert I'm chilled to the bone
Yipee yi little doggie yipee yi
Looky yonder there's a dust cloud paintin' picture in the sky
Daddy told me all about it in that Texas Lullaby
Them old longhorns are a ballin' Lord I know I must be high
Wish my dad could hear me singin' this old Texas Lullaby
Yipee yi little doggie...
[ mandolin - dobro ]
Daddy left me this old guitar though I never quite knew why
He said someday I'd be famous like that Texas Lullaby
But it's been a month of Sundays since I seen that eagle fly
And nobody wants to listen to a Texas Lullaby
Yipee yi little doggie...
Yipee yi little doggie yipee yi yipee yi
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5.
LIVING ON THE RUN
(David A. Coe - Jimmy L. Howard)
« © '76 Careers Music, BMI »
Seems like it's rainin' harder today
The rain must of known I was comin' this way
It ain't easy living on the run
If I pick up my step and pull my belt down tight
I can make it to the border by saturday night
And it's lonely living on the run
I killed me a woman in Tennessee I just broke jail and they're gunnin' for me
I'm on the run living on the run I'm on the run living on the run
[ guitar - fiddle ]
My woman wanted more than a man could steal
From the bottom of the decks where I learned to deal
And it got me me living on the run
Women love an outlaw I heard folks say
And I'll be an outlaw till my dying day
Cause it got me living on the run
I killed me a woman...
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6.
FAMILY REUNION
(David A. Coe)
« © '75 David Allan Coe Music, BMI »
Mama taught us how to sing in harmony
Grandma used to stomp her foot and slap her knee
I can still hear daddy singin' down by the old mill stream
When uncle Jim played the fiddle you could hear it talk you could hear it sing
And it echoed down the mountains to those Georgia pines
Ran through Tennessee just like that old moonshine
Old Joe Clark Cripple Creek Annie Get Your Gun
I guess my old time favorite was that Fox on the Run
Like a fox like a fox on the run
Grandpa played the dobro till the break of dawn
Me I had this guitar and I'd strum along
Carol played the washboard and the tamborine
Little Mary Beth would always help us sing
And it echoed down the mountains...
Mama taught us how to sing in harmony...
[ fiddle - dobro ]
And it echoed down the mountains...
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7.
ROCK AND ROLL HOLIDAY
(David A. Coe)
« © '75 Careers Music, BMI »
Why did you come here what do you need
Don't look at me like you want me to plead
My friends are dyin' to make rock and roll stand
While we've been livin' in a country rock band
We've gotta slow down come down we got to get off of this merry-go-round
[ steel ]
Where did you go Marilyn Monroe
If you see James Dean tell him I said hello
Janis sang here Jimmy did too
They're saving a place there for me and you
There's gonna be a rock and roll holiday
We've got to get there in time to play
Tune up the fiddle rosin the bow
We could be the only country band on a rock and roll show
We've got to get up no time to hit up
There's another crowd waiting for the music to play
[ dobro ]
Slow down come down don't take a ride on death's merry-go-round
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8.
FREE BORN RAMBLING MAN
(David A. Coe)
« © '76 Careers Music, BMI »
I never meant to leave her my intentions were to stay
It wasn't nothing she had done or nothing she could say
To change this old familiar feeling that makes chills run through my skin
Less she read my mind and saw the sings that point around the bend
My toothbrush never leaves my pocket there's no anchor on my feet
If my sleepin' bag gets dusty and there's not enough to eat
I may stay an extra day till I find another town
You can bet there's not a lady that can show this freight train down
And I'll be moving in the morning leaving you behind
If anyone should ask you you can tell them they will find
Somebody walking down the highway with a guitar in his hand
And I'll always be remembered as a free born rambling man
[ guitar ]
Lord tell the children when they find me that I died but not in vain
They can find reincarnation in the whistle of a train
And each time they hear the whistle blow through the stillness of the land
They'll know that I was happy as a free born rambling man
And I'll be moving...
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9.
SPOTLIGHT
(David A. Coe)
« © '76 Careers Music, BMI »
I can't see nothing but spotlights spotlights see nothing but me
All of my music is lonely yeah all of my heartaches were free
Don't waste your time or your flash bulbs too many heroes are dead
You like to live in the city yeah I like to live in my head
Somebody shoot out that spotlight spotlights ain't nothing but jive
Roll me a smoke and give me some coke treat me like I am alive
Tell all the ladies I'm single tell Lone Star beer that I'm dry
Everyone's lying bout livin' everyone's livin' a lie
I spend my nighttimes in mourning I spend my morning's alone
You spent your your money to see me tonight yeah I spent all mine gettin' stoned
Now that they're both kinda busted doesn't it seem kinda strange
That I lay down knowing we're two of a kind you'll leave here knowing my name
Somebody shoot out that spotlight...
Everyone's lying bout livin' I'm tired of livin' a lie
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10.
DAKOTA (THE DANCING BEAR) (Part II)
(Larry Murray - David A. Coe)
« © '74 Prodigal Son Music, BMI »
Betty drove the semi she pulled up to the pump
I thought I wanted a Coca-Cola and I started out on the jump
She said hold it Dave come quick there's something you gotta see
That man had got a dancing bear tied up to that old tree
I said dance dance Dakota dance all around the country store
Me and sweet Betty ain't never seen a bear that could dance before
Well it's one step two steps three steps four
A bottle of soda and he'll dance some more
Dance dance Dakota dance all around the country store
Well these hippies walked up to the cage giving pills to that ole bear
I don't know what it was they was giving to him it had him pulling out his hair
I tried to keep time with the music Lord with the beat on my tamborine
Gave him some wine from a Mason jar and we all began to sing
I said dance dance Dakota dance...
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