Lucille

B.B. King

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  S1:
  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
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  S2:
  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 the 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
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  S3:
  I can always, I can always, you know like uh 

  Depend on Lucille  

  Sort of hard to talk to you myself, 

  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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  S4:
  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, ya know 

  Sometime I get to the place where I can't even say nothing
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  S5:
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  You know, if I could sing pop tunes like Frank Sinatra or Sammy Davis Junior 

  I don't think I still could do it 

  But 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
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  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
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  A little Mahalia Jackson in there  

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  x--x--x--x One more, Lucille  
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  Take it easy now  

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  x--x--x--x You know, I imagine a lot of you wanna know 
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  S10:
  A lot of you wanna know why I call the guitar Lucille 

  Lucille has practically saved my life two or 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 me, really it held it up off me  

  So that's one time it saved my life
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  S11:
  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
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  S12:
  And when the gas ran all over the floor 

  The building caught on fire, and almost burned me up trying to save Lucille 

  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 

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  And that's been Lucille ever since to me, 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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