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Requiem for a Harlequin is the second album by American musician David Allan Coe. [4] [5] It was released in 1970 on SSS International Records. [6]The album is a departure from Coe's work mostly in the country music genre.
The lyrics of Penitentiary Blues are often dark and foreshadow the content of Coe's later country albums, discussing themes such as working for the first time, blood tests from veins used to inject heroin, prison time, hoodoo imagery and death.
David Allan Coe (born September 6, 1939) is an American singer and songwriter. [2] Coe took up music after spending much of his early life in reform schools and prisons, and first became notable for busking in Nashville .
In the third verse, Coe notes "the only time I know I'll hear David Allan Coe is when Jesus has his final Judgment Day." In a spoken epilogue preceding the song's iconic closing verse, Coe relates a correspondence he had with Goodman, who stated the song he had written was the "perfect country and western song."
Coe’s version appeared as the b-side of “You Never Even Called Me by My Name,” and it would also be recorded as a duet by Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson in 1983 and by Johnny Cash on his album American Recordings: Solitary Man. The song, which contains poetic lyrics questioning the devotion of a prospective lover, was surprising to ...
For the Record: The First 10 Years is a compilation album by David Allan Coe. Track listing. You Never Even Called Me by My Name" - 5:14
Longhaired Redneck was Coe's third album for Columbia in three years and the first where he wrote or co-wrote all the songs. Coe had already written several hits for other artists and scored his own Top 10 hit in 1975 with the Steve Goodman-John Prine composition "You Never Even Called Me by My Name."
Pages in category "Songs written by David Allan Coe" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.