Steel Guitar

O'Keefe
 Carole once told me she dreamed she was pretty
 And lived in a very cool part of the city
 With a man who came home every evening at six
 And begged her to play him country licks
 On her steel guitar
 Show biz tricks on her steel guitar
 Her Pa'd been a welder during the war
 And he played country music every night till four
 With some drugstore cowboys who could pick and grin
 And if you let it all out they'd bring it back in
 On a steel guitar
 They'd go from hell to breakfast on a steel guitar
 He taught his daughter to drink whiskey like water
 And go for the man who had something to offer
 He said to her, Baby, you can go very far
 With an easy laugh and a steel guitar
 A steel guitar
 You don't need a man, you got a steel guitar
 Jack was a rambler, he'd been around Nashville
 He knew all the tricks and he sure wasn't bashful
 When he sas Carole playing steel guitar
 He said to her, Mama, we could sure go far
 On your steel guitar
 We could make it together on your steel guitar
 Make a short story longer they had a couple of children
 Jack went to war and the enemy killed him
 Carole got his pension and a purple heart
 And every night till two she tears them apart
 With her steel guitar
 Says, You don't need a man with a steel guitar
 She plays country music and she's paid up her dues
 You ought drop in if you got nothing to lose
 She can steal a guitar, steal a heart
 And they come every night to get torn apart
 By a steel guitar
 She's got a Sho-Bud Special, it's a steel guitar