Lucille

Lucille - B.B. King

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

Or you might say brought me fame

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

Sometimes when I'm blue it's seems like Lucille

Trying to help me calling my name

I used to sing spirituals and I thought that

This was the thing I wanted to do

But somehow or another 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 my dues

I mean when things are bad with me

I can always I can always you

You know like depend on Lucille

Sorta hard to talk to you myself

I guess I'll let Lucille say

All of 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's misusing me

And I go home at night maybe I'm lonely

Well not maybe I am lonely

I pick up Lucille and then ping out those funny sounds

That sound good to me you know

Sometimes I get to play it

Where I can't even say nothing

Look out

Sometimes I think it is crying

You know if I can sing pop tunes like

Frank Sinatra or Sammy Davis Jr.

I don't think I still could do it

'Cause Lucille don't wanna play nothing

But the blues

And I think I'm 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 little Ray Charles

In fact all the people with soul in this

A little Mahalia Jackson in there

One more Lucille take it easy now ah

You know I've met a lot of you months ago

A lot of you wanna know

Why I call the guitar Lucille

Lucille has practically saved my life

Two three times

No kidding 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 of me really it held

It up off of me

So that's one time it saved my life

The way the way I uh I came

By the name of Lucille

I was over in Twist Arkansas

I know you never heard of that

But happened and one night the guys

Started a ball over there

You know started brawling you know what I mean

And the guy that was mad with this 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

Uh oh I I imagine you're still wondering

Why I call it Lucille

The lady that started the brawl

That night was named Lucille

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 really good I think I'll try one more alright