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[Verse]
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The sound that you're listening to
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Is from my guitar that's named Lucille
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■ I'm very crazy about Lucille 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 could just talk enough about Lucille
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■ Sometime when I'm blue seem like Lucille try to help me call my name ■
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■ I used to sing spirituals and I thought that this
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Was the thing that I wanted to do
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■ But somehow or other When I went in the army ■ I picked up on Lucille and started the
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singing blues ■
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■ Well now when I'm paying my dues ■
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Maybe you don't know what I mean when I say paying dues I mean when things are bad with me
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I can always I can always you know like ■ depend on Lucille
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■ Sort of hard to talk to you myself
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I guess I'll let Lucille say 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 misuses 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 I pick up Lucille
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And it bring out those funny sounds that sound good to me you know
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■ ■ Sometime I get to the place where I can't even say nothing ■
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Look out ■
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Sometime I think it's crying
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You know if I could sing pop tunes like ■ Frank Sinatra or
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Sammy Davis Junior I don't think I still could do it
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'cause Lucille don't wanna play nothing 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
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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
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A little Ray Charles 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
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Take it easy now ah
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You know I imagine a lot of you wanna know
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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 or three times
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No kidding it really has
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I remember once I was in an automobile accident and
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When the car stopped turning over ■ it fell over on Lucille
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And it held it up off me really it held it up off me ■
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■ So that's one time it saved my life
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The way the way I came by the name of Lucille
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■ I was Over in Twist Arkansas I know you've never heard of that one have you
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And one night the guys started a ball over there you know started brawling you know what I mean
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■ And the guy that was mad with his old lady ■
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When she fell over on this gas tank that was burning for heat
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The gas ran all over the floor
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■ ■ And when the gas ran all over the floor the building
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Caught on fire and almost burned me up trying to save Lucille
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Oh I I imagine you're still wondering why I call it Lucille
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The lady that started that 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 pretty good I think I'll try one more
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■ ■ All right
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