Editing David Allan Coe (section)

=== Bankruptcy ===

Like Willie Nelson and [[Jerry Lee Lewis]], Coe has battled the [[IRS]] costing him the publishing rights to his compositions, including "Take This Job and Shove It". He stated in 2003:

{{blockquote|All of my songs up to 1984 were sold in a bankruptcy proceeding for, like, $25,000 from the bankruptcy court, because nobody told me they'd been put up for sale! Basically the IRS claimed I owed them $100,000. I was living at a place and we had a flood and everything was destroyed. They knew I didn't have any records – any proof of what I did have and what I didn't have. So I just filed [for] bankruptcy. [Willie] Nelson chose to deal with them. I chose not to. I'm totally straight with them now. The only income I have is the money I make on the road performing and from my new songs that I own.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.review-mag.com/|title= An Exclusive Interview with David Allan Coe|last=Engelhardt|first=Kristof|date=January 2003|work=Review|access-date=January 14, 2020}}</ref>}}

In another interview, Coe added, "All the songs on the X-rated albums were sold. I don't own that stuff anymore. I have nothing to do with that stuff. They have to give me credit as the songwriter, but I don't make one cent."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.countrystandardtime.com/|title= David Allan Coe rebuts racism charge|last=netherland|first=Tom|date=November 2000|work=Country Standard Time|access-date=January 26, 2020}}</ref>