David Allan Coe
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"David Allan Coe" is an American songwriter, outlaw country music singer, and guitarist who achieved popularity in the 1970s and 1980s. As a singer, his biggest hits were "Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile", "The Ride (David Allan Coe song)/The Ride", "You Never Even Called Me by My Name", "She Used to Love Me a Lot", and "Longhaired Redneck (song)/Longhaired Redneck". His best-known compositions are the No. 1 successes "Would You Lay with Me (In a Field of Stone) (song)/Would You Lay With Me (In a Field of Stone)" (which was covered by Tanya Tucker) and "Take This Job and Shove It" (which was later covered by Johnny Paycheck and inspired a hit movie; both Coe and Paycheck had minor parts in the film).

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One thing is certain, You can't shake hands with a fist.

Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life.

All men are created equal, It is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.

If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination.

In fact, if it had been up to me I would have had them take a black screen and drop in front of me on stage and just let the people hear the music.

I guess you could say I've always been country; maybe more so than a lot of the other acts you listen to today.

Everybody started saying, well, this cat's not as dumb as people think he is.

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.