Sweet Lucy

Oh, when we left, you know, it got very cold

Each other's hands, we had to hold

I got very drunk down in Tennessee

She got drunk, at least as drunk as me

I run up the hill, and as she cried and cried

I run down the other side

Oh, sweet Lucy

Oh, sweet Lucy

Oh, sweet Lucy, let me go

Policeman come, and took away my wine

They threw us in jail, with a hundred-dollar fine

I could hear my baby cryin' over the wall

In the women's detention hall

I got on the phone and my mama, she spoke

"Sorry, my son, but your mama is broke"

Oh, sweet Lucy

Oh, sweet Lucy

Oh, my sweet Lucy, let me go

Wherever I go, it seems I got to get sad

Just like sorrow, it's balmy in the air

In the wide-open skies of California

I found sorrow way out there

Five gets you ten that you better move fast

You know, five gets you ten, you ain't gonna get past, no, no

Oh, sweet Lucy

Oh, sweet Lucy

Oh, sweet Lucy, let me go

Oh, Harry Hubcaps and his buddy Jack the Fluke

They bought a bottle, they were trying damn to get loose

They were buddies, but they had a fight

They broke the jukebox, Lord, they broke the light

Big ol' Fluke weighed three-hundred pounds

And he fell on Harry and Harry went down

Oh, my sweet Lucy

Oh, sweet Lucy

Oh, sweet Lucy, let me go

Oh, my old lady says, "Gimme that wine"

I says, "Honey, you better stop drinking sometime"

She said, "Silly boy, it ain't my fault

Had to eat my porkchop without no salt"

She run up the hill, she cried and cried

And I run down the other side

Oh, sweet Lucy

Oh, sweet Lucy

Oh, sweet Lucy, let me go