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Xebsball
06-04-2004, 08:30 PM
no party for me tonight, so:


"Lucille"

The sound that you're listening to is from my guitar that's named Lucille. I'm very crazy about Lucille. Lucille took me from the plantation, Oh you might say, brought me fame. I don't think I could just talk enough about Lucille. Sometime when I'm blue seem like Lucille try to help me call my name.

I used to sing spirituals and I thought that this was the thing that I wanted to do. But somehow or other when I went in the army I picked up on Lucille, and started singin' blues. Well, now when I'm payin' my dues, maybe you don't know what I mean when I say payin' dues, I mean when things are bad with me.

I can always, I can always, you know like, depend on Lucille.

Sort of hard to talk to you myself. I guess I'll let Lucille say a few words and then...

You know, I doubt if you can feel it like I do. But when I think about the things that I've gone through, like, well for instance, if I have a girlfriend and she misuses me, and I go home at night, maybe I'm lonely, well not maybe, I am lonely, I pick up Lucille, and it bring out those funny sounds that sound good to me, you know. Sometime I get to the place where I can't even say nothing.

Look out.

Sometime I think it's cryin'.

You know, if I could sing pop tunes like Frank Sinatra or Sammy Davis Junior, I don't think I still could do it, 'cause Lucille don't wanna play nothin' but the blues. I think I'm, I think I'm pretty glad about that, 'cause don't nobody sing to me like Lucille. Sing, Lucille.

Well, I'll put it like this, Take it easy, Lucille. I like the way Sammy sings and I like the way Frank sings, but I can get a little Frank, Sammy, a little Ray Charles, in fact all the people with soul in this.

A little Mahalia Jackson in there.

One more, Lucille!

Take it easy now.

You know, I imagine a lot of you wanna know, a lot of you wanna know why I call the guitar Lucille. Lucille has practically saved my life two or three times. No kidding, it really has. I remember once I was in an automobile accident, and when the car stopped turnin' over, it fell over on Lucille, and it held it up off me, really, it held it up off me. So that's one time it saved my life.

The way, the way I came by the name of Lucille, I was over in Twist, Arkansas, I know you've never heard of that one, have you? And one night the guys started a ball over there, you know, they started brawlin', you know what I mean. And the guy that was mad with his old lady, when she fell over on this gas tank that was burnin' for heat, the gas ran all over the floor

And when the gas ran all over the floor, the building caught on fire, and almost burned me up tryin' to save Lucille. Oh I, I imagine you're still wonderin' why I call it Lucille, the lady that started that brawl that night was named Lucille.

And that's been Lucille ever since to me. One more now, Lucille.

Sounds pretty good to me. Can I do one more?

Look out, Lucille.

Sounds pretty good, I think I'll try one more.

All right.

Xebsball
06-05-2004, 09:12 PM
so no party for you again, boy?
aight, whatever whatever



"Why I sing the blues"

Everybody wants to know
Why I sing the blues
Yes, I say everybody wanna know
Why I sing the blues
Well, I've been around a long time
I really have paid my dues

When I first got the blues
They brought me over on a ship
Men were standing over me
And a lot more with a whip

And everybody wanna know
Why I sing the blues
Well, I've been around a long time
Mm, I've really paid my dues

I've laid in a ghetto flat
Cold and numb
I heard the rats tell the bedbugs
To give the roaches some

Everybody wanna know
Why I'm singing the blues
Yes, I've been around a long time
People, I've paid my dues

I stood in line
Down at the County Hall
I heard a man say, "We're gonna build
Some new apartments for y'all"

And everybody wanna know
Yes, they wanna know
Why I'm singing the blues
Yes, I've been around a long, long time
Yes, I've really, really paid my dues
Now I'm gonna play Lucille

My kid's gonna grow up
Gonna grow up to be a fool
Cause they ain't got no more room
No more room for him in school

And everybody wanna know
Everybody wanna know
Why I'm singing the blues
I say I've been around a long time
Yes, I've really paid some dues

Yeah, you know the company told me
Guess you're born to lose
Everybody around me, people
It seems like everybody got the blues

But I had 'em a long time
I've really, really paid my dues
You know I ain't ashamed of it, people
I just love to sing my blues

I walk through the cities, people
On my bare feet
I had a fill of catfish and chitterlings
Up in Downbill Street

You know I'm singing the blues
Yes, I really
I just have to sing my blues
I've been around a long time
People, I've really, really paid my dues

Now Father Time is catching up with me
Gone is my youth
I look in the mirror everyday
And let it tell me the truth

I'm singing the blues
Mm, I just have to sing the blues
I've been around a long time
Yes, yes, I ve really paid some dues

Yeah, they told me everything
Would be better out in the country
Everything was fine
I caught me a bus uptown, baby
And every people, all the people
Got the same trouble as mine

I got the blues, huh huh
I say I've been around a long time
I've really paid some dues

One more time, fellows!

Blind man on the corner
Begging for a dime
The rollers come and caught him
And throw him in the jail for a crime

I got the blues
Mm, I'm singing my blues
I ve been around a long time
Mm, I've really paid some dues

Can we do just one more?

Oh I thought I'd go down to the welfare
To get myself some grits and stuff
But a lady stand up and she said
"You haven't been around long enough"

That's why I got the blues
Mm, the blues
I say, I've been around a long time
I've really, really paid my dues

Fellows, tell them one more time.
Ha, ha, ha. That's all right, fellows.
Yeah!

blooming lotus
06-06-2004, 05:47 AM
Xes...you're a sweety

Chang Style Novice
06-06-2004, 07:09 AM
Charlie Parker would choke out BB King.

Christopher M
06-06-2004, 07:31 AM
The "Lucille" (http://www.gibson.com/products/gibson/lucille/index.html) is one of a few truly excellent guitars. Give her a play sometime if you get the chance.

Chang Style Novice
06-06-2004, 09:23 AM
Gibson hollowbodies are real nice. Do they still make that Wes Montgomery signature model? I couldn't find it on that site. Or maybe that was a different manufacturer entirely.

Wes Montgomery would choke out B.B. King, too, natch.

edit -

A quick google search reveals that one of Wes Montgomery's most used guitars (http://www.gould68.freeserve.co.uk/wesg.htm) was a 1963 Gibson L-5 with some custom mods. You can't tell me you're looking at this page and not drooling with gear-lust.

CaptinPickAxe
06-06-2004, 12:40 PM
If you're havin girl problems i feel bad for you son, I got 99 problems but a ***** ain't one



Xes...you're a sweety

yeah...his quote obviously shows he's quite the ladies man...callin wimmins *****es is sure to melt the panties.;)

SevenStar
06-06-2004, 01:30 PM
considering that xebs can't get a girl, that jay-z quote holds true for him.

The Willow Sword
06-06-2004, 01:33 PM
The Bigger the cushion the sweeter the pushin' thats what i say.
The Looser the waistband the deeper the quicksand , or so i have read.

My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo, id like to sink her with my pink torpedo,

chorus: " BIG BOTTOMS BIG BOTTOMS TALK ABOUT BUM CAKES MY GIRLS' GOT EM BIG BOTTOMS DRIVE ME OUT OF MY MIND <<HOW CAN I LEAVE THIS BEHIND."

I met her on monday it was my lucky bun day , you know what i mean.
I see her each week day each velvety cheek day you know what i mean.
MY love guns loaded and shes in my sights, big game is waiting there inside her tights yeah.

chorus: BIG BOTTOMS BIG BOTTOMS TALK ABOUT MUD FLAPS MY GIRLS' GOT EM BIG BOTTOMS DRIVE ME OUT OF MY MIND <<HOW CAN I LEAVE THIS BEHIND."

Spinal Tap, "Big Bottoms".

blooming lotus
06-06-2004, 05:55 PM
Originally posted by The Willow Sword
The Bigger the cushion the sweeter the pushin' thats what i say.
The Looser the waistband the deeper the quicksand , or so i have read.

My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo, id like to sink her with my pink torpedo,

chorus: " BIG BOTTOMS BIG BOTTOMS TALK ABOUT BUM CAKES MY GIRLS' GOT EM BIG BOTTOMS DRIVE ME OUT OF MY MIND <<HOW CAN I LEAVE THIS BEHIND."

I met her on monday it was my lucky bun day , you know what i mean.

Spinal Tap, "Big Bottoms".

met her on monday.took her for drink on tues-day ay...we were makin luv by wednesday and thursday and friday...........

Craig david ;)

Chang Style Novice
06-07-2004, 08:34 PM
Robert Quine, RIP (http://home.earthlink.net/~stayclean/quine.html)

Steve Lacy, RIP (http://senators.free.fr/)

Also, in the last few weeks we've lost Elvin Jones and Kenny Burrell.

It's a dangerous time to be an innovative musical genius.

KC Elbows
06-07-2004, 08:50 PM
The Bay City Rollers have never felt safer.

rubthebuddha
06-07-2004, 10:35 PM
:D

s
a
t u r
d a y
night

etc.

oddly, spelling out letters in a song was only done well on two occasions:

r e s p e c t

and

b e
a g g
r e s s i v e.

:D

Chang Style Novice
06-08-2004, 07:26 AM
Incorrect. See also Wynette, Tammy, "D-I-V-O-R-C-E." Probably others too.

CaptinPickAxe
06-08-2004, 07:30 AM
I donno...
F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C-D-A-M-A-G-E-

was done nicely by el-p on"Squeegie Man Shooting"

rubthebuddha
06-08-2004, 09:07 AM
closest thing to goodness tammy wynette ever did involved the klf. :mad:

Chang Style Novice
06-08-2004, 09:16 AM
The incorrect has caught rtb wearing raver threads in a honeytonk and broken a bottle of lonestar over his head.

rubthebuddha
06-08-2004, 09:56 AM
and now the correct is celebrating (http://www.thehonkytonkman.com/pictures/albums/wwf/abs.jpg). :(

sorry, changstyle, i just don't like much of what such music has to offer. i even saw clint black at last year's houston rodeo (girlfriend forced me to go at gunpoint) and, while it was fun and entertaining, the idea of country music of any kind will still make my intestines cramp in revulsion. ;)

FatherDog
06-08-2004, 10:02 AM
All that proves is that Cauty and Drummond can make anyone sound good.

Chang Style Novice
06-08-2004, 10:06 AM
Hey, not everything's for everybody, we both know that. My real point was that a lot (and I mean a whole lot) of people esteem her contributions to music a great deal. She's stood the test of time, nah mean? Even KLF wouldn't have picked her out if they weren't big fans. Same deal as when Pet Shop Boys got Dusty Springfield to sing on a record, or when Jack White did an album with Loretta Lynn. Or U2 and Johnny Cash, etc. etc.