Sweet Lucy
Sorrow in the Golden State: Sweet Lucy's Tale of Heartbreak
Lyrics
When we left, it was cold
Leaving in cold weather
Each other's hands we had to hold
Intertwined hands for warmth
We got drunk in Tennessee
Getting intoxicated in Tennessee
She was just as drunk as me
Both equally intoxicated
She run up the hill, she cried and cried
Lucy runs uphill, distressed
I run down the other side
Narrator runs downhill, distancing
Oh, sweet Lucy
Expressing affection for Lucy
Oh, sweet Lucy
-Oh, sweet Lucy, let me go
-Police come, they took my wine
Legal consequences, Lucy in detention
They put us in jail, hundred dollar fine
-I could hear her crying, over the wall
-In the women's detention hall
-I got on the phone, my mama spoke
Mama unable to help financially
"Sorry, Son, but your mama's broke"
-Oh, sweet Lucy
Plea to release Lucy
Oh, sweet Lucy
-Oh, sweet Lucy, let me go
-Wherever I go, I get sad
Widespread sadness in narrator's life
Seems like sorrow lives in the air
-In the wide-open skies of California
-There was sorrow way out there
-Five get your ten that you don't get past
Challenges and need for quick action
Five get your ten that you better go fast
-Oh, sweet Lucy
Reiteration of affection for Lucy
Oh, sweet Lucy
-Oh, sweet Lucy, let me go
-Oh Harry Hubcaps and Jack the Fluke
Details of a fight involving Harry and Fluke
They bought a bottle, a bottle for Luke
-They was buddies, they had a fight
-They broke the jukebox, they broke the light
-Big old Fluke, weigh three hundred pounds
-Fell on Harry when Harry fell down
-Oh, sweet Lucy
Resuming plea for Lucy's release
Oh, sweet Lucy
-Oh, sweet Lucy, let me go
-My old lady says, "Gimme that wine"
Domestic dispute over wine and porkchop
I says, "Honey, quit drinking sometime"
-She says, "Snock, it's not my fault!
-Had to eat my porkchop without no salt"
-She run up the hill, she cried and cried
Repetition of Lucy's distress and narrator's escape
I run down the other side
-Oh, sweet Lucy
Final plea to let Lucy go
Oh, sweet Lucy
-Oh, sweet Lucy, let me go
-Oh, sweet Lucy
Reiteration of the plea to release Lucy
Oh, sweet Lucy
-Oh, sweet Lucy, let me go
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