"Steel Guitar" lyrics

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 his favorite licks
On her steel guitar
On a real guitar
Yeah, she could put it all together on a steel, on a real guitar
Yeah, she'd could put it all together on a steel, on a real guitar

Her Pa'd been a welder during the war
And he played country music every night till four
With some drugstore cowboys who'd pick and grin
And if you let it all out they'd bring it all back in
On a steel guitar
On a real guitar
Yeah, they could put it all together on a steel, on a real guitar
Yeah, they'd put it all together on a steel, on a real guitar

So 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
With that steel guitar
On a real guitar
You don't need a man, you got a steel, a real guitar
No, you don't need a man, you got a steel, a real guitar

Jack was a rambler, he'd been around Nashville
He knew all the tricks and he sure wasn't bashful
He heard Carole playing steel guitar
He said to her, "Baby, you and me could go far
On that steel guitar
On a real guitar
Come on, let's put it all together on a steel, on a real guitar
Come on, we'll put it all together on a steel, on a real guitar"

I'll make a long story short, they had a couple of children
Jack went to war and the enemy killed him
Carole got his pension and his purple heart
Now every evenin' till two she just picks 'em apart
On that steel guitar
On a real guitar
She said, "I don't need a man, I got a steel, a real guitar
No, I don't need a man, I got a steel, a real guitar"