Lone Star Steel

Well the Navy turned my Daddy loose in 1945 He rode straight home to East Texas on a train Stepped off that Texas Eagle on a cold December night Walked 27 miles north in the rain To see my mother and the son that bore his name Took a job in a steel mill making 80 cents an hour 80 hours a week in that cursed furnace room Just like the Hebrew children he was walking in the fire He was burned and scarred but he was not consumed Burned and scarred but he was not consumed They burned Oklahoma coal melted ore from Daingerfield Turned that rusty pig iron into steel The fire that scarred a many a man and many a man it killed Burned my Daddy's heart as hard as Lone Star Steel My mother dearly loved the man that came home from the war With a passion that she thought could not be quelled Day by day a colder man came back home to her When the fire burned out well there was nothing left She took me and we left Daddy by his self Burning Oklahoma coal melting ore from Daingerfield Turning rusty pig iron into steel The fire that scarred a many a man and many a man it killed Turned my mother's heart as hard as Lone Star Steel Well Daddy he died young breathing smoke and spitting fire Mama died with whiskey on her breath They finally quenched them furnace fires 'leven years ago Made their money and moved on to something else Took their money and moved off to somewhere else From burning Oklahoma coal and melting ore from Daingerfield Turning rusty pig iron into steel The fire that scarred a many a man and many a man it killed Burned a many a heart as hard as Lone Star Steel And turned my little heart as hard as Lone Star Steel