Steel Guitar (1975)

Lyrics

[Verse 1] You know Carol 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 6 And begged her to play him country licks On a steel guitar Play him all her tricks on a steel guitar [Verse 2] Her pa'd been a welder during the war And he played country music every night 'til 4 With some drugstore cowboys who could pick and grin And if you let it all out they'd bring it all in On a steel guitar They'd go from hell to breakfast on a steel guitar [Verse 3] He taught his daughter to drink whiskey like water And to 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 Steel guitar You don't need a man, honey, with a steel guitar" [Steel Guitar Solo] [Verse 4] Now Jack was a rambler, he'd been 'round Nashville He knew all the tricks and he sure wasn't bashful He heard Carol playing her steel guitar He said to her, "Baby, we could sure go far On that steel guitar We could make it together now, honey, on a steel guitar" [Verse 5] To make a short story long they had a couple of children And Jack went to war and the enemy killed him Carol got his pension and a purple heart And every night 'til 2 she rips 'em apart With her steel guitar She say, "You don't need a man now, honey, with a steel guitar" [Verse 6] She plays country music and she's paid up her dues You oughta drop in, you got nothing to lose She can steal a guitar, she can steal a heart And they come every night to get picked apart By that steel guitar That's a Sho-Bud special, that steel guitar