He though it was the perfect C&W song until someone pointed out that he didn't say anything about Momma, getting drunk, pickup trucks or trains. So he wrote one last verse to make it the perfect C&W song. It went something like this:

I was drunk the day my Mom got outta prison.
I went to pick her up in the rain.
But before I got to the station in my pickup truck..
she got runed over by a danged ol' train!

>Dave,
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>I've always found ironic that the "perfect" country song (according to David Allan Coe) was written by a guy from Chicago, the late, great Steve Goodman. The song is, "You never even call me by my name".