SHE'S MY EVER LOVIN' MACHINE 
(Shel Silverstein)

Shel Silverstein - 1965
Bobby Bare - 1973


 

Well friends you know once I was took in
By a girl with a twinkly eye
But the first time that I wasn't lookin'
She run off with a handsomer guy, oh my

But I'm an inventin' type feller
So as soon as my brain got uncurled
I tiptoed right down to my cellar
And built a mechanical girl

Oh, her arms are iron, her legs are steel
Her hips are on wires attached to a wheel
And her spine is a coil that I now and then oil
She's my ever lovin' machine

She's always right there when I need her
And she's very easy to please
And hardly cost nothin' to feed her
Just some water and oil and grease

She never complains when I stay out all night
She never complains that I ain't rich
And each time I want her just to cuddle me up tight
I just reach out and turn on her switch

Oh, her arms are iron, her legs are steel
Her hips are on wires attached to a wheel
And her spine is a coil that I now and then oil
She's my ever lovin' machine

She has no trouble making her mind up
'Cause friends I did not give her a mind
And her heart is a clock that I wind up
So I know that she'll love me in time

She always did what she was s'posed to
Right up to this evening, but then
She had an affair with the toaster
And they run off and left me again

Oh, her arms was iron her legs was steel
Her hips were on wires attached to a wheel
And her spine was a coil that I used to oil
She was my ever lovin' machine



**Shel Silverstein's recording contains this extra verse:

My love is completely electric 
And she gives me a shock with each hug
And when the romance gets too hectic 
I simply pull out the plug



(Transcribed from the Bobby Bare 
recording by Mel Priddle - Jan 2011)