In the 1975 song “You Never Even Call Me By My Name” David Allan Coe says his friend Steve Goodman had written the Perfect Country and Western song except he hadn’t said anything about “mama Or trains, or trucks, or prison, or getting' drunk”.
Steve Goodman comes back with The Perfect Country and Western verse. (It’s the song that closes the show).
Fun Fact: John Prine co-wrote this song but wanted his name off the credit because he thought it was a novelty song.
Here’s What We Played
Trains and Trucks
Roy Acuff Wabash Cannonball
Flatt and Scruggs The Wreck of the Old 97
Johnny Cash Rock Island Line
Red Simpson Diesel Smoke and Dangerous Curves
Del Reeves Looking At The World Through a Windshield
Mamas and Prison
Dolly Parton Mama Say a Little Prayer
Dolly Parton Coat of Many Colors
Waylon and Willie Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
Tammy Wynette I Wish I Had a Mommy Like You
Merle Haggard Mama Tried
Gettin’ Drunk
Jim Ed Brown Pop A Top
Loretta Lynn Don’t Come Home A Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ On Your Mind)
Roger Miller The Best of All Possible Worlds
Ernest Tubb Two Glasses Joe
Hank Willams Junior and Hank Williams Senior There’s A Tear in My Beer
The Song That Started It All
David Allan Coe You Never Even Call Me By My Name
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The Five Tenets of Country Music (as outlined by Steve Goodman)