Lucille
By Kenny Rogers
Tabbed by Raymond Bailey

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In a bar in Toledo across from the depot on a bar stool she took off her ring
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I thought I'd get closer so I walked on over, I sat down and asked her name
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When the drinks finally hit her she said I'm no quitter but I fin’lly quit living on dreams
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I'm hungry for laughter and here ever after I'm after whatever 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 be side 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 
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With four hungry children and a crop in the field
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I've had some bad times lived through some sad times but 
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This time your hurting won't heal
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You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille
 

After he left us I ordered more whiskey 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 'cause the words that he told her kept coming back time after time

Chorus

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