Anthony Bonnette - Lone Star Steel Lyrics

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