In 1999, at my 10 year high school reunion, they played this song and my date (our first date together) was shocked and asked how does everyone know the words to this song. lol
The "girl" in the song is the country music industry. It's about knowing he'll never be accepted or win awards(why he won't hear his name called) but he's still considered country(why his name is in the phone book and in lights). The last verse is making fun of country songs that always seem to be about drinking and trucks etc.
In the top 3 barroom singalongs of all time, along with "American Pie" and "Here's A Quarter Call Someone Who Cares". An honorable mention for "Friends In Low Places".
Fun Fact: John Prine was a cowriter for this song but he requested to be uncredited on it because he said he felt it was to "goofy and a novelty song" and didn't want to "offend those from the country music genre" Turns out it has become a favorite of many....
It’s just my opinion, but I don’t hear it…until he gets to Merle Haggard. His was exactly what Merle did with this voice on a lot of songs and whoever was on the Telecaster was dead nuts on. That was 102% Haggard-style.
David Allen Coe is a legend! When I was a freshman in college 1995 David played a frat party and I got an invite and went he played his whole show then rolled up and dank til dawn with us. When he says “And I’ll hand around as long as you’ll let me.” You yell, “Let me let me let me let me!”
This song was the theme song at a local tavern that was popular with the classic rock and country crowd. Imagine 50 to 100 people singing this song. 😊❤
That's a FREAKING CLASSIC COUNTRY SONG !!! YOU HAVE TO HAVE ALL OF THOSE THINGS IN A COUNTRY SONG .. at the cook out, woods, bars, that song is a MUST TO BE PLAYED!!
One thing that almost all David Allen Coe songs have in common... He usually finds a way to drop his own name somewhere/somehow in his songs... Every time I have ever gone to a country bar, it seemed that maybe 30-40 percent of the time, this song was playing, either on the jukebox, or somebody either covering it on karaoke, or the band... If it wasn't plying when you walked in the door, you could bet it would be played soon... Every time it would get to the line "I'll Hang Around As Long As You Will Let Me"... Everyone in the bar would always shout out, "LET ME! LET ME! LET ME! LET ME! LET ME!"... You can fit EXACTLY 5 "LET ME!"s in there before the lyrics pick up again.
My Father was Inducted into the Atlanta Country Music Hall of Fame back in the late 80's and I knew DAC when I was a kid I'm 60 now but I still have the pictures from when would all together with our family and friends and just sit around and jam out while us kids just played our ass off,if your wanting to go down his song's here's a few.... if it ain't Country or The Ride he's got alot of other one's but there the one's can't play till after midnight in some places like..... Finger Freaking Sally,I think that's one of the reason him and DAC were friends because that's mostly what kinda music he sang,Thank You Sir for your reaction love you 😍 hope you have a blessed evening 🙏
Brother I am DYING LAUGHING at your expression on your face with the last verse! I'm 60 now, but we were all crammed into a country bar every weekend, when I was in college, and we all sang this, ESPECIALLY LAST VERSE, while we were drunk, at TOP VOLUME. I'm sitting here watching you, laughing, and I'm singing by myself at top volume! I don't even drink anymore!
While on a trail ride with 700 fellow horseman/woman that night at the dance all 699 of them started singing the last verse to the song, a friend who wasn’t old enough to know and love this song, hearing everyone singing , she got run over by a damed ol train in unison, she screamed above the music how does everyone know this!!!😂😂 😅😂 because we’re county music born and bred ❤❤❤❤
one of the greatest singer/songwriters ever. A lot of his songs can't be played on the radio as people consider them offensive. He holds nothing back and isn't afraid to express what he thinks. This is one of the most famous bar songs and everybody knows the words and sings along at the top of thier voices.
DAC was never embraced by commercial radio. The song is about people thinking he was a variety of other artists, Waylon, Merle or Charlie Pride, but very few people knew his name or recognized his voice.
I met him by chance one day at the gas station in the town I lived in. It was Mothers Day and I stopped in to get a coffee at the gas station and low and behold there the legend stood!! I asked him "Are you David Allen Coe?" and he said "I was last night and will be tonight and probably will be tomorrow night too"...he winked and had a smirky grin and then he asked for directions on how to get to a venue he was gonna play at later than night. He was alone and drove himself!! No band members, no entourage, no bodyguards...just a regular old man with a beard with 2 braids in it asking for directions and pumping his own gas and drove himself there in his Gold Escalade!! If I hadn't wanted that coffee I would have never met him!! The universe works in mysterious ways!! Best Mother's Day EVER!!! 🌷
I used to hang out in country bars and this song was always played with the guests holding a drink, swaying together and sing way out loud. How much fun that was!
Karaoke’d this at a restaurant once, folks didn’t know the song, but was singing at the end of it, did it at a country bar (and I’m not a cowboy or dress country) blew their minds I knew it and that whole bar was singing with me, they really loved devil went down to Georgia. Well I met some good folks that night. Country bars are fun if you can adapt to their vibe.
Great reaction! Good to see DAC getting some recognition again these days. He was one of the Outlaws of Country back in the day, having spent some time in prison helped with that persona I'm sure. You need to react to his song "The Ride". It's one of his best, IMO. (Spoiler alert, he's talking about Hank Williams Sr. in the song.)
Not one of my top recommendations for an artist, but I love how he highlighted with the list of ingredients for the perfect country and western song how classic country music doesn't take itself too seriously. Every country music fan can agree that with that last verse, the legendary Steve Goodman did indeed write the perfect country and western song, even if he was born and raised in Chicago. Your reaction is priceless. And yes, the song is catch-ee-ee! 🤣
I think the last verse is kinda tongue-in-cheek.. Taking ownership of the typical stereotypes that people put on country music. DAC would be near the top of my recommendations. He's got some good songs, such as this, "Tennessee Whiskey," and of course "The Ride".
David Alan Coe is indeed a LEGEND, but these days I’m afraid that an awful lot of folks would be terribly offended by a lot of his stuff. He’s honestly no more vulgar or offensive than some stuff that’s popular today in other genres that I’ve seen you react to. I’d still tread lightly with him if I was you, he earned the outlaw label long before you were born. Long Haired Redneck and Time Off For Bad Behavior both got radio air play so those are fairly safe ones for you to do reactions on. On a fun note, DAC is still around and still puts on a helluva show, your secretary probably has seen him a time or two!
I can vouch that this song was sung by Me and hundreds of others on top of the Bars in the Country and Western Bar 'Diamond Jims' in Dallas Texas on multiple nights in the early 80's...
Some other DAC classics are Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile, Tennessee Whiskey, Cheap Thrills, and he was the writer of the classic by Johnny Paycheck "Take This Job and Shove It"
He, along with Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and some others, was a part of a small group of C&W musicians who left Nashville for Austin. They called themselves the Outlaws, and they were legendary.
AB, when you said “Randy Savage” I screamed!😂 While I’m glad I got to see your reaction, I would advise you follow the advice of the other commenters. He has done songs that are incredibly hateful racist, but that’s not common knowledge. That’s probably how this slipped through the cracks. Broke my heart that your good heart gave him hall of fame. Keep moving on though. We fans will keep you on a good track❤
@Nursejackie, talent is talent, skill is skill. What someone believes or feels or thinks doesn't take away from their talent. And, for your information, anybody that knows old Country music knows about David Allen Coe and his views. His songs are still good, he was just a product of his time and location and upbringing. If you were to look into them, over half the country music stars of the 70s on back shared most of his views, they just adapted or grew out of them as the times changed. David Allen Coe is unapologetic about anything, one of the last real outlaws of Country music. One of his best songs is "The Ride."
For the longest time I didn’t know he had songs like that but my redneck ex husband would listen to them when we first got together. Let’s just say I got a CD for him with his greatest hits not those.
Omg!! That was great!! He was the original singer of Tennessee Whiskey!! Then George Jones did it a couple years later. But as we all know Mr. Stapleton showed us what's up 🔥🔥 great reaction like always 🔥🔥
lol I went to college in Kentucky and this was on at all the parties. She just calls him 'baby or darlin,' never his actual name; the only time he knows he'll hear his actual name is when Jesus comes a-callin, since she doesnt care enough to use it. (The lyric is "I've seen it on signs where I've played"). That last fun verse is stuffing in everything that makes a stereotypical country song :) If you re-listen to it, after the chorus says "as long as you will let me," you hit your drink on the table three times and say "LET ME LET ME LET ME" before he hits the next line. Now you are ready for a Kentucky frat house party :)
The song was my prospecting Anthem prospecting for a motorcycle club I stood out in the rain many times stood out in the snow and nobody ever called me by my name LOL
The last verse is using all those elements that he told his songwriting friend that he’d left out of his ‘perfect country music’ song. . . It’s a joke!!!!
In my opinion greatest country songwriter ever his outlaw biker reputation caused him to be underground yet has a huge following. Great voice he does however have 2 songs with have the n word but that's how it was back then
In 1977, cable was just starting and we had Channel Z available in Houston. It was only on at night. One of the programs that came on after Midnight on Saturday was called Midnight Blue. DAC was interviewed on that show. If you can find it online (I did once),. it will tell you all you want to know about DAC, Very interesting interview. Not for kids.
The song is a sarcastic poke at the country music industry. How artists were forgotten so quickly by agents, record labels and radio stations. The last verse was a darkly sarcastic poke at country music in that every song in that genre was supposed to have those four elements in them. Those being Mama,, trains, trucks and being drunk. Total sarcasm to prove a point.
This guy did a side project with members of Pantera. Rebel Meets Rebel was the name of the album, came out in 2006! Anyone who is reading this and is interested check out Nothin’ To Lose. 1st track on the Album but a certified banger.
He told his friend, who wrote the song that it was not the perfect Country song, because didn’t mention anything about Mama, prison, rain, trains or getting drunk. SOOOO, he puts all of these in the last verse. It’s just funny.
Great reaction. 👍 In about 2000 I saw him open for Kid Rock. Lot of great songs by DAC ... Tennessee Whiskey, Take this Job and Shove It, etc ... If you get a chance check out his song The Ride ... that one sends chills down your spine.
And between every "and I'll hang around as long as you will let me" You'll here: "let me, let me, let me, LET ME! " If there's an audience. This song is notorious anywhere remotely rural.
DAC is actually a very good artist!! He actually is very good at impersonating other artists. His impersonation of George was pretty darn good (not that the others were not). Peace, Love some more!
This was written by a guy from Chicago -- Steve Goodman, a big Cubs fan. He is an example of the saying "only the good die young." If you want to react to another Steve Goodman song, listen to "The City of New Orleans" by Willie Nelson and the Highwaymen.
A key to the song is how it works as something fun to sing along with in a bar or VFW, like Jerry Jeff Walker's cover of Ray Wylie Hubbard's "Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother".
It may have already been mentioned but listen to the different voices he uses. He is imitating the singers he names. The last verse is using all the things DAC told the writer he didn't have in the original song. Thus, the perfect country song!
I heard that David Allen Coe was always getting MIXED up with other country stars......they called him Merle or Charlie etc....and the parody goes for the "Perfect" country song aka the last verse was a GOOD SENSE OF HUMOR!! Sang it loud and proud!!!
Now imagine a couple hundred drunks in a country bar singing every word of this song AS LOUD AS THEY CAN. It happens every time...for decades.
I can vouch for that. My dad and his buddy do it all the time, and they don't even drink in a bar.
It's "if that ain't country" sang like that here in Kentucky. But I do sign the last verse of this a lot 😂
Yup. Been there. Done that.
This! ❤
"let me, let me, let me" 🤣
Back in the 70s this was the greatest bar song and EVERYONE would sing along! Great times back then❤️
Yessssss best sing a long bar song ever 😂❤
Hey, I'd say in the 2000s this was still an amazing bar song! My favorite karaoke DJ sang this one 🥰 thanks for the reaction 💖🦋
In 1999, at my 10 year high school reunion, they played this song and my date (our first date together) was shocked and asked how does everyone know the words to this song. lol
Lol every band that played in our bar did a cover of it too, and it still got picked on the jukebox during band breaks, and still does to this day,
And in 2004 and for a few more years, still being sung at the bar!
The "girl" in the song is the country music industry. It's about knowing he'll never be accepted or win awards(why he won't hear his name called) but he's still considered country(why his name is in the phone book and in lights). The last verse is making fun of country songs that always seem to be about drinking and trucks etc.
In the top 3 barroom singalongs of all time, along with "American Pie" and "Here's A Quarter Call Someone Who Cares". An honorable mention for "Friends In Low Places".
Family Tradition by Hank Jr
All My Ex's Live in Texas
@@scapito bout to say this myself….
Freebird also is at least a must here in the Midwest.
He’s the first one to record Tennessee Whisky in 1977
Fun Fact: John Prine was a cowriter for this song but he requested to be uncredited on it because he said he felt it was to "goofy and a novelty song" and didn't want to "offend those from the country music genre"
Turns out it has become a favorite of many....
I believe Steve and John wrote it at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in NY City. Two of the best song writers, IMHO.
John Prine and Steve Goodman were good friends.
Did you notice how many famous singers he imitated during the first half of the song? No wonder "you never even call me by my name".
He goes into the singers' voices when he sings their name.
It’s just my opinion, but I don’t hear it…until he gets to Merle Haggard. His was exactly what Merle did with this voice on a lot of songs and whoever was on the Telecaster was dead nuts on. That was 102% Haggard-style.
Nothing like having this song come on at a bar and hearing 50 people singing along at the top of their lungs!
Oh lordy, the look on your face when " Momma got hit by a damn train.." so funny, your expression... 🤣😂😂😂😂Lmao!!!!!
David Allen Coe is a legend! When I was a freshman in college 1995 David played a frat party and I got an invite and went he played his whole show then rolled up and dank til dawn with us.
When he says “And I’ll hand around as long as you’ll let me.” You yell, “Let me let me let me let me!”
I can't sing the third verse without laughing....it's priceless!!!
I love David Allen Coe. Driving around with the car system blasting this, BeeGees, REO Speedwagon Bob Seger. We had the best music ever made.
IF THAT AIN'T COUNTRY, is a Must to check out, David Allen Coe is outlaw country❤❤
This song was the theme song at a local tavern that was popular with the classic rock and country crowd. Imagine 50 to 100 people singing this song. 😊❤
This was played at closing time at all the bars packed with college kids belting it out together in south Louisiana back in the day !
I remember those days fondly! 😉
Oh yeah, absolutely! I’m a Baton Rouge native and GEAUX LSU⚜️💜💛
When he says "and I'll hang around as long as you will let me" we Always yell "LET ME LET ME LET ME LET ME" After he sings that line. 🤣 🤣
Do you also do the “what happened?” In the last verse bc we used to do that at a steakhouse when I was a kid and that’s awesome lol
Best bar sing along song of all time!
That's a FREAKING CLASSIC COUNTRY SONG !!! YOU HAVE TO HAVE ALL OF THOSE THINGS IN A COUNTRY SONG .. at the cook out, woods, bars, that song is a MUST TO BE PLAYED!!
This song is SO MUCH FUN. lol. Love David Allan Coe.
Great song and best bar room Country song! We add to it! You would have to hear it!
I loved your face during the last verse. It was perfect. You always do the best reactions. Keep going.
One thing that almost all David Allen Coe songs have in common... He usually finds a way to drop his own name somewhere/somehow in his songs...
Every time I have ever gone to a country bar, it seemed that maybe 30-40 percent of the time, this song was playing, either on the jukebox, or somebody either covering it on karaoke, or the band... If it wasn't plying when you walked in the door, you could bet it would be played soon...
Every time it would get to the line "I'll Hang Around As Long As You Will Let Me"... Everyone in the bar would always shout out, "LET ME! LET ME! LET ME! LET ME! LET ME!"... You can fit EXACTLY 5 "LET ME!"s in there before the lyrics pick up again.
My Father was Inducted into the Atlanta Country Music Hall of Fame back in the late 80's and I knew DAC when I was a kid I'm 60 now but I still have the pictures from when would all together with our family and friends and just sit around and jam out while us kids just played our ass off,if your wanting to go down his song's here's a few.... if it ain't Country or The Ride he's got alot of other one's but there the one's can't play till after midnight in some places like.....
Finger Freaking Sally,I think that's one of the reason him and DAC were friends because that's mostly what kinda music he sang,Thank You Sir for your reaction love you 😍 hope you have a blessed evening 🙏
Yes they are all pictures of him
Brother I am DYING LAUGHING at your expression on your face with the last verse! I'm 60 now, but we were all crammed into a country bar every weekend, when I was in college, and we all sang this, ESPECIALLY LAST VERSE, while we were drunk, at TOP VOLUME. I'm sitting here watching you, laughing, and I'm singing by myself at top volume! I don't even drink anymore!
While on a trail ride with 700 fellow horseman/woman that night at the dance all 699 of them started singing the last verse to the song, a friend who wasn’t old enough to know and love this song, hearing everyone singing , she got run over by a damed ol train in unison, she screamed above the music how does everyone know this!!!😂😂 😅😂 because we’re county music born and bred ❤❤❤❤
Nothing like being in a crowded, smoky Honky Tonk when this song comes on the juke box and everybody in the bar sings along.
Best bar sing a long song everrrrr
one of the greatest singer/songwriters ever. A lot of his songs can't be played on the radio as people consider them offensive. He holds nothing back and isn't afraid to express what he thinks. This is one of the most famous bar songs and everybody knows the words and sings along at the top of thier voices.
DAC was never embraced by commercial radio. The song is about people thinking he was a variety of other artists, Waylon, Merle or Charlie Pride, but very few people knew his name or recognized his voice.
But it was written by Steve Goodman, who was even less embraced by commercial radio.
I met him by chance one day at the gas station in the town I lived in. It was Mothers Day and I stopped in to get a coffee at the gas station and low and behold there the legend stood!! I asked him "Are you David Allen Coe?" and he said "I was last night and will be tonight and probably will be tomorrow night too"...he winked and had a smirky grin and then he asked for directions on how to get to a venue he was gonna play at later than night. He was alone and drove himself!! No band members, no entourage, no bodyguards...just a regular old man with a beard with 2 braids in it asking for directions and pumping his own gas and drove himself there in his Gold Escalade!! If I hadn't wanted that coffee I would have never met him!! The universe works in mysterious ways!! Best Mother's Day EVER!!! 🌷
David Allen COE was the greatest, this song was one everyone knew by heart.
He was one of the original outlaws.
Signs where he played.
Thank you for letting him in the Hall of Fame.
I don't often listen to country, but the outlaws are a different breed. Love Outlaw Country.
I used to hang out in country bars and this song was always played with the guests holding a drink, swaying together and sing way out loud. How much fun that was!
Song was written by Steve Goodman and John Prine, during a tequila bender - Steve also wrote 'City of New Orleans,' and John wrote 'Sam Stone'
The storyteller of country … legend 100%
You are the best. I always have a blast. Thank you so much.
I’ve loved this song for years, but never understood it until you explained it. Thanks bro.
Been a while since I heard this song. Brings so many memories of being at my great grandparents house. Love this song.
Karaoke’d this at a restaurant once, folks didn’t know the song, but was singing at the end of it, did it at a country bar (and I’m not a cowboy or dress country) blew their minds I knew it and that whole bar was singing with me, they really loved devil went down to Georgia. Well I met some good folks that night. Country bars are fun if you can adapt to their vibe.
Great reaction! Good to see DAC getting some recognition again these days. He was one of the Outlaws of Country back in the day, having spent some time in prison helped with that persona I'm sure. You need to react to his song "The Ride". It's one of his best, IMO. (Spoiler alert, he's talking about Hank Williams Sr. in the song.)
Not one of my top recommendations for an artist, but I love how he highlighted with the list of ingredients for the perfect country and western song how classic country music doesn't take itself too seriously. Every country music fan can agree that with that last verse, the legendary Steve Goodman did indeed write the perfect country and western song, even if he was born and raised in Chicago. Your reaction is priceless. And yes, the song is catch-ee-ee! 🤣
I think the last verse is kinda tongue-in-cheek.. Taking ownership of the typical stereotypes that people put on country music.
DAC would be near the top of my recommendations. He's got some good songs, such as this, "Tennessee Whiskey," and of course "The Ride".
David Alan Coe is indeed a LEGEND, but these days I’m afraid that an awful lot of folks would be terribly offended by a lot of his stuff. He’s honestly no more vulgar or offensive than some stuff that’s popular today in other genres that I’ve seen you react to. I’d still tread lightly with him if I was you, he earned the outlaw label long before you were born. Long Haired Redneck and Time Off For Bad Behavior both got radio air play so those are fairly safe ones for you to do reactions on.
On a fun note, DAC is still around and still puts on a helluva show, your secretary probably has seen him a time or two!
Amen to that you have a song about this trash they call music now and David Allen Coe would be labeled offensive
This, "Tennessee Whiskey," and "The Ride". Were my favorites.
Also "Panheads Forever" and "Now I Lay Me Down to Cheat".
@@alexandrapepsi2302 he probably shouldn't listen to his underground albums.
maybe you havent heard all of his music. he made complete albums dedicated to his racism. very very racist dude
@@hotfoot61 thats what I'm saying. These people would be shocked by his racist tracks
Oh this should be good 😂😂😂😂😂 love ya AB ❤
Finally! Thanks AB. Wonder what she called him...oh yeah, I can think of a few names.🤣🤣
david comes with a warning lable controversial is putting it mildly politacly correct void
Oh goodness this brought back memories. We'd shout out "Let me, let me".
This is one of my favorite karaoke songs
LetMe LetME LETME!!!
I can vouch that this song was sung by Me and hundreds of others on top of the Bars in the Country and Western Bar 'Diamond Jims' in Dallas Texas on multiple nights in the early 80's...
Some other DAC classics are Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile, Tennessee Whiskey, Cheap Thrills, and he was the writer of the classic by Johnny Paycheck "Take This Job and Shove It"
This song is damn anthem in every bar in the south! Great song ❤
Hey darlin, great artist. Keep listening to him he is awesome! Ty for all your work. 🤠❤️🤍🤍🇺🇲💯
He, along with Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and some others, was a part of a small group of C&W musicians who left Nashville for Austin. They called themselves the Outlaws, and they were legendary.
Listen to what he tells his friend the first time he said he wrote the perfect country/western and the verse his friend wrote back
You struck GOLD. A live version with all the greats. Makes me reminense.
That Was 🔥🔥🔥Back in the day
AB, when you said “Randy Savage” I screamed!😂
While I’m glad I got to see your reaction, I would advise you follow the advice of the other commenters. He has done songs that are incredibly hateful racist, but that’s not common knowledge. That’s probably how this slipped through the cracks. Broke my heart that your good heart gave him hall of fame. Keep moving on though. We fans will keep you on a good track❤
@Nursejackie, talent is talent, skill is skill. What someone believes or feels or thinks doesn't take away from their talent. And, for your information, anybody that knows old Country music knows about David Allen Coe and his views. His songs are still good, he was just a product of his time and location and upbringing. If you were to look into them, over half the country music stars of the 70s on back shared most of his views, they just adapted or grew out of them as the times changed. David Allen Coe is unapologetic about anything, one of the last real outlaws of Country music. One of his best songs is "The Ride."
For the longest time I didn’t know he had songs like that but my redneck ex husband would listen to them when we first got together.
Let’s just say I got a CD for him with his greatest hits not those.
Those voices that sounded like other country artists was David impersonating them. Yes I believe those photos are all him.
Omg!! That was great!! He was the original singer of Tennessee Whiskey!! Then George Jones did it a couple years later. But as we all know Mr. Stapleton showed us what's up 🔥🔥 great reaction like always 🔥🔥
lol I went to college in Kentucky and this was on at all the parties.
She just calls him 'baby or darlin,' never his actual name; the only time he knows he'll hear his actual name is when Jesus comes a-callin, since she doesnt care enough to use it. (The lyric is "I've seen it on signs where I've played"). That last fun verse is stuffing in everything that makes a stereotypical country song :)
If you re-listen to it, after the chorus says "as long as you will let me," you hit your drink on the table three times and say "LET ME LET ME LET ME" before he hits the next line. Now you are ready for a Kentucky frat house party :)
My college bar in Oklahoma added more extra words. Spicier ones.
Love this song
Lordy I've sang this song in every "hole in the wall" in my county. Drunk singing.😜😂
That bonus verse is just....lordy.🤭🤭 No one expects it.
This was a bar Song that we would sing........... Let me! Let me.......... After that verse 🙌🙌🤣🤣🤣🙄
You had me at “ Randy Savage “ lol . Oh, the stories that could be told around this tune !
This is the funny side of country. Sorta like Home Free's Butts Remix. Peace, Love!!
The song was my prospecting Anthem prospecting for a motorcycle club I stood out in the rain many times stood out in the snow and nobody ever called me by my name LOL
The last verse is using all those elements that he told his songwriting friend that he’d left out of his ‘perfect country music’ song. . . It’s a joke!!!!
No real story other than writing the perfect country song
In my opinion greatest country songwriter ever his outlaw biker reputation caused him to be underground yet has a huge following. Great voice he does however have 2 songs with have the n word but that's how it was back then
I knew that third verse was coming and I LOVE your reaction to it!
In 1977, cable was just starting and we had Channel Z available in Houston. It was only on at night. One of the programs that came on after Midnight on Saturday was called Midnight Blue. DAC was interviewed on that show. If you can find it online (I did once),. it will tell you all you want to know about DAC, Very interesting interview. Not for kids.
The song is a sarcastic poke at the country music industry. How artists were forgotten so quickly by agents, record labels and radio stations. The last verse was a darkly sarcastic poke at country music in that every song in that genre was supposed to have those four elements in them. Those being Mama,, trains, trucks and being drunk. Total sarcasm to prove a point.
This guy did a side project with members of Pantera. Rebel Meets Rebel was the name of the album, came out in 2006! Anyone who is reading this and is interested check out Nothin’ To Lose. 1st track on the Album but a certified banger.
Oh you went real country 👍🏽 I love your channel ❤️❣️❤️
He told his friend, who wrote the song that it was not the perfect Country song, because didn’t mention anything about Mama, prison, rain, trains or getting drunk. SOOOO, he puts all of these in the last verse. It’s just funny.
Great reaction. 👍 In about 2000 I saw him open for Kid Rock. Lot of great songs by DAC ... Tennessee Whiskey, Take this Job and Shove It, etc ... If you get a chance check out his song The Ride ... that one sends chills down your spine.
Loved his album "Happy Side & Sucide"
Love this one. It reminds me of my Papa (grandpa).
And between every "and I'll hang around as long as you will let me"
You'll here: "let me, let me, let me, LET ME! "
If there's an audience. This song is notorious anywhere remotely rural.
You just glided over arguably the greatest line in country music: "I was drunk the day my mama got out of prison" 😂
He was definitely an original outlaw. He bucked the system and sang what he wanted. LOL
The only way to truly appreciate this song today is in a country dive bar. Put it on the box and watch the show
DAC is actually a very good artist!! He actually is very good at impersonating other artists. His impersonation of George was pretty darn good (not that the others were not). Peace, Love some more!
I love my DAC, he was THE OUTLAW.
David the president of the Outlaws MC back in the day 😊
This was written by a guy from Chicago -- Steve Goodman, a big Cubs fan. He is an example of the saying "only the good die young." If you want to react to another Steve Goodman song, listen to "The City of New Orleans" by Willie Nelson and the Highwaymen.
My second favorite song by him.
Love it
A key to the song is how it works as something fun to sing along with in a bar or VFW, like Jerry Jeff Walker's cover of Ray Wylie Hubbard's "Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother".
The last verse is completely tongue-in-cheek. A huge joke, because it encapsulates every single country song cliché in one verse.
It may have already been mentioned but listen to the different voices he uses. He is imitating the singers he names. The last verse is using all the things DAC told the writer he didn't have in the original song. Thus, the perfect country song!
Last verse to meet criteria. Written with sarcasm.
give a listen to his song The Ride
Any country bar you walk in to..if this song comes on...almost every person in the bar will sing the lyrics
I heard that David Allen Coe was always getting MIXED up with other country stars......they called him Merle or Charlie etc....and the parody goes for the "Perfect" country song aka the last verse was a GOOD SENSE OF HUMOR!! Sang it loud and proud!!!
david allen coe the ride
Perfect country same..😆😆❤️