Kenny Rogers

Lucille

In a bar in Toledo across from the depot
on a bar stool she took off her ring
I thought I'd get closer so I walked on over
I sat down and asked her her name
When the drinks finally hit her she said
I'm no quitter but I finally quit living on dreams
I'm hungry for laughter and here ever after
I'm after what-ever the other life brings

In the mirror I saw him and I closely watched him
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
The big hands were calloused he looked
like a mountain for a minute I thought I was dead
But he started shaking his big heart was breaking
he turned to the woman and said

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You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille
with 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 won't heal
you picked a fine time to leave me Lucille.
After he left us I ordered more whisky
I thought how she´d made him look small
From the lights of the bar room to a rented hotel room we walked without talking at all
She was a beauty but when she came to me
She must have thought I'd lost my mind
I couldn't hold her 'cos the words that he told her
kept coming back time after time

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