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

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 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 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 shakin'

His big heart was breakin'

He turned to the woman and said

"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 hurtin' won't heal

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 barroom

To a rented hotel room

We walked without talkin' 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 comin' back time after time

"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

This time your hurtin' won't heal

You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille"

"You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille

With four hungry children a crop in the field

I've had some bad times

Lived through some sad times

But this time your hurtin' won't heal

You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille"

You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille