The sound that you're listenin' 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   Tryin' to help me callin' 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 singin' blues      Well, now when I'm payin' my dues   Maybe you don't know what I mean when I say payin' 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 misusin' 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 nothin'   Look out   Sometimes I think it is cryin'      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 nothin' 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      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 turnin' 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 brawlin', 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 burnin' 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   Tryin' 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