Lucille

The sound that you're listening to

Is from my guitar that's named Lucille

I'm very crazy about Lucille

Lucille took me from the plantation

Oh, you might say "Brought me fame"

I don't think I could just talk enough about Lucille

Sometime when I'm blue seem like Lucille try to help me call my name

I used to sing spirituals and I thought that this

Was the thing that I wanted to do

But somehow or other when I went in the army

I picked up on Lucille, started singing blues

Well, now when I'm paying my dues

Maybe you don't know what I mean when I say "paying dues"

I mean when things are bad with me

I can always, I can always you-you know like

Depend on Lucille

Sort of hard to talk to you myself

I guess I'll let Lucille say a few words and then

You know

I doubt if you can feel it like I do

But when I think about the things that I've gone through

Like, well for instance

If I have a girlfriend and she misuses me

And I go home at night, maybe I'm lonely

Well, not maybe, I am lonely

I pick up Lucille

And it bring out those funny sounds that sound good to me, you know

Sometime I get to the place where I can't even say nothing

Look out

Sometime I think it's crying

You know, if I could sing pop tunes like Frank Sinatra

Or Sammy Davis Junior

I don't think I still could do it

'Cause Lucille don't wanna play nothing but the blues

I think I'm, eh, I think I'm pretty glad about that

'Cause don't nobody sing to me like Lucille

Sing Lucille

Well, I'll put it like this, take it easy, Lucille

I like the way Sammy sings and I like the way Frank sings

But I can get a little Frank, Sammy, a little Ray Charles

In fact all the people with soul in this

A little Mahalia Jackson in there, eh-eh

One more, Lucille!

Take it easy now

Ah-ah

You know, I imagine a lot of you wanna know

A lot of you wanna know why I call the guitar Lucille

Lucille has practically saved my life two or three times

No kidding, it really has

I remember once I was in an automobile accident

And when the car stopped turning over, it fell over on Lucille

And it held it up off me, really, it held it up off me

So that's one time it saved my life

The way, the way I, I came by the name of Lucille

I was over in Twist, Arkansas

I know you've never heard of that one, have you?

Eh-eh-eh

And one night, the guys started a ball over there, you know

They started brawling, you know what I mean

And the guy that was mad with his old lady

When she fell over on this gas tank that was burning for heat

The gas ran all over the floor

And when the gas ran all over the floor

The building caught on fire

And almost burned me up trying to save Lucille, ah-ah

Oh I, I imagine you're still wondering why I call it Lucille

The lady that started that brawl that night was named Lucille, eh-eh-ah-ah

And that's been Lucille ever since to me

One more now, Lucille

Sounds pretty good to me, can I do one more?

Look out, Lucille

Sounds pretty good, I think I'll try one more

All right