The sound that you′re listening to

Is from my guitar that's named Lucille

I′m very crazy about LucilleLucille took me from the plantation

Oh, and 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, and 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 um, 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)

Sometimes 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, 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

One more, Lucille

Take it easy now, 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 came by the name of Lucille, I was over in Twist, Arkansas

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

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

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

The lady that started that 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 pretty good

I think I'll try one more

All right