close but no guitar

i'd sing the harmonies and dixie sang the melody, and we sing a little off key sometimes, but we had some fun, son of a gun, i wonder if i ever even cross her mind, then she ran away with billy bovine, he was a flat top guitar pickin' friend o' mine, and now i'm just sittin' home just countin' the stars, i got close but no guitar, i got close but no guitar, she was a shooting star, who ran off with a guitar pickin' friend o' mine, she's really on her way, i hear her records every day, i got close but no guitar, i still play piano bars, still drive that same ol' car, i live in that little shack in tupelo, dixie is the queen of billboard magazine, playin' 'cross the country doin' one night shows, a man walks up with a dollar in his hand, says let me hear the song by dixie and the guitar man, and as the dollar falls to the bottom of my jar, i get close but no guitar, i got close but no guitar, she was a shooting star, who ran off with a guitar pickin' friend o' mine, she's really on her way, i hear her records every day, i got close but no guitar, i got close but no guitar, she was a shooting star, who ran off with a guitar pickin' friend o' mine, she's really on her way, i hear her records every day, i got close but no guitar