Lucille

In a bar in Toledo, across from the depot,

on a barstool she took off her ring.

I thought I’d get closer, so I walked on over

I sat down and asked her her name.

But I finally quit living on dreams

I’m hungry for laughter and here ever after

I’m after whatever the other life brings

I thought how he looked out of place.

He came to the woman who sat there beside me.

He had a strange look on his face.

For a minute I thought I was dead.

But he started shaking his big heart was breaking,

he turned to the woman and said:

You picked the fine time to leave me Lucille.

Four hungry children and a crop in the field.

I’ve had some bad times, lived through some sad times,

but this time your hurting wouldn’t heal.

You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille.

I thought how he made him look small.

From lights of the bar room to a rented hotel room

we walked without talking at all.

She must have thought I’d lost my mind.

I couldn’t hold her, cause’ the words that he told her

kept coming back time after time.

You picked the fine time to leave me Lucille

Four hungry children and a crop in the field

I’ve had some bad times, lived through some sad times,

but this time your hurting wouldn’t heal.

You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille.

You picked the fine time to leave me Lucille

Four hungry children and a crop in the field

I’ve had some bad times, lived through some sad times,

but this time your hurting wouldn’t heal.

You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille.