B.B. King - Lucille Lyrics

From the Album: Lucille





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 planatation

Oh and 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 when 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 and started sing the 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 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 things 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, and 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 where I can't even say nothin'

Lookout





Sometimes I think it's 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

Because 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, 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....ahhhh]



You know I gotten a lot of you months ago 

Alot 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's 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 it happened

And one night, the guys started a ball over there, started brawling, you know what I mean

And the guy that was mad with this old lady

When she fell over 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 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

Can I do one more?





I got Lucille





Sounds really good

I think I'll try one more

All right






[Thanks to louise_love5 for correcting these lyrics]