Lucille (Kenny Rogers song)
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"Lucille" | ||||
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Single by Kenny Rogers | ||||
from the album Kenny Rogers | ||||
B-side | "Till I Get It Right"[1] | |||
Released | January 24, 1977 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 3:42 | |||
Label | United Artists | |||
Songwriter(s) | Roger Bowling Hal Bynum | |||
Producer(s) | Larry Butler | |||
Kenny Rogers singles chronology | ||||
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"Lucille" is a song written by
The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Country Song and Rogers won the Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance in 1978.[5]
Content
The song, told by the narrator (Rogers), tells the story of a man in a bar in Toledo, Ohio, who acquaints himself with a downhearted married woman named Lucille. An inebriated Lucille admits her unhappiness in life and her longing for adventure. Her husband arrives and approaches the two; the narrator is intimidated by the man. The brokenhearted husband, starting to shake, scorns her for her inconvenient timing in abandoning him "with 4 hungry children and a crop in the field", leaving him with a "hurtin'" that won't heal. After the husband leaves, Lucille and the narrator make their way to a hotel room. Once there, however, the narrator is unable to engage romantically, in spite of her willingness and her beauty. He keeps recalling the husband's haunting words.
Chart performance
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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References
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- ^ "Adult Contemporary Songs – Year-End 1977". Billboard. Retrieved August 3, 2021.
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