| The sound that you’re listenin' to
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| Is from my guitar that’s named Lucille
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| I’m very crazy about Lucille
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| Lucille took me from the plantation
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| Or you might say brought me fame
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| I don’t think I can just talk enough about Lucille
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| Sometimes when I’m blue it’s seems like Lucille
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| Tryin' to help me callin' my name
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| I used to sing spirituals and I thought that
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| This was the thing I wanted to do
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| But somehow or another, when I went in the Army
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| I picked up on Lucille, started singin' blues
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| Well, now when I’m payin' my dues
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| Maybe you don’t know what I mean when I say payin' my dues
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| I mean when things are bad with me
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| I can always, I can always you, you know, like depend on Lucille
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| Sorta hard to talk to you myself
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| I guess, I’ll let Lucille say
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| All of a few words and then
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| You know, I doubt if you can feel it like I do
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| But when I think about the things that I’ve gone through
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| Like, well, for instance, if I have a girlfriend and she’s misusin' me
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| And I go home at night, maybe I’m lonely
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| Well, not maybe, I am lonely
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| I pick up Lucille and then ping out those funny sounds
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| That sound good to me, you know
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| Sometimes I get to play it where I can’t even say nothin'
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| Look out
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| Sometimes I think it is cryin'
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| You know if I can sing pop tunes like
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| Frank Sinatra or Sammy Davis Jr
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| I don’t think I still could do it
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| 'Cause Lucille don’t wanna play nothin' but the blues
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| And I think I’m, I think I’m pretty glad about that
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| 'Cause don’t nobody sing to me like Lucille, sing Lucille
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| Well, I’ll put it like this, take it easy, Lucille
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| I like the way Sammy sings and I like the way Frank sings
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| But I can get a little Frank, Sammy, little Ray Charles
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| In fact all the people with soul in this
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| A little Mahalia Jackson in there
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| One more Lucille, take it easy now
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| You know, I’ve met a lot of you months ago
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| A lot of you wanna know why I call the guitar, Lucille
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| Lucille has practically saved my life two, three times
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| No kidding, really has
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| I remember once I was in an automobile accident
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| And when the car stopped turnin' over, it fell over on Lucille
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| And it held it up off of me, really, it held it up off of me
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| So that’s one time it saved my life
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| The way, the way, I, uh, I came by the name of Lucille
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| I was over in Twist, Arkansas, I know you never heard of that
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| But happened and one night, the guys started a ball over there
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| You know started brawlin', you know what I mean
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| And the guy that was mad with this old lady
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| When she fell over on this gas tank that was burnin' for heat
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| The gas ran all over the floor and when the gas ran all over the floor
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| The building caught on fire and almost burned me up
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| Tryin' to save Lucille
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| Uh, oh, I, I imagine you’re still wondering why I call it Lucille
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| The lady that started the brawl that night was named Lucille
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| And that’s been Lucille ever since to me
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| One more now, Lucille
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| Sounds pretty good to me, can I do one more?
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| Look out, Lucille
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| Sounds really good, I think I’ll try one more, alright |