Done Laid Around chords by Eric Bibb
Verse 1
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Well, it was all that I could do
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C
to keep from crying
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Sometimes it seems so
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useless to remain
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But you don't have to call me darling
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Darling, darling,
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C
you never even call me by my name.
Verse 2
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C
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You don't have to call
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me Waylon Jennings.
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An d you don't don't have
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C
to call me Charlie Price
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Verse 3
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Dm
And you don't have to call me
C
Merle Haggard anymore
Am
Verse 4
D
Even though you're
on my fighting side
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Verse 5
F
And I'll hang around as
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long as you will let me
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C
And I never minded standing in the rain
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But you don't have to call me darling
Verse 6
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And, darling,
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you never even call me by my name
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Verse 7
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C
Well, I've heard my name
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a few times
C
in your phone book
Hello, hello
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And I've
Verse 8
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G
C
seen it on songs where I play
Verse 9
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F
But the only time I know
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I'll hear David Allen call
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D
Am
D
G
Is when Jesus has his final judgment laid
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So I'll hang around as
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long as you will let me
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C
And I never minded standing in the rain
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But you don't have to call me darling,
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darling
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C
G
He never even called me by my name.
Verse 10
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Well, a friend of mine named Steve Goodman wrote that song,
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G
and he told me it was the perfect country and western song.
I wrote him back a letter,
and I told him it was not the perfect country and western song
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because he hadn't said anything at all
Am
G
about mama, or trains, or trucks,
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G
or presents, or getting drunk.
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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 obliged to include
it on this album.
The last verse goes like this here.
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C
Well, I was drunk the day my
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C
mom got out of prison.
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C
And I went to pick her up in the rain.
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But before I could get to the station
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Am
in the pick -up truck
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She got run over by a damned old train
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And I'll hang around as
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long as you will let me
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And I never mind just
C
standing in the rain, no
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C
You don't have to call me darling
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Darlin', you never even call me
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F
Well, I wonder why you don't call me
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Why don't you ever call
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F
me by my name?
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