: Music
Lucille, Lucille
(Hungrytown)
© 2004 Rebecca Hall & Ken Anderson.
We wrote this song during our first year living in Vermont. It was a beautiful late winter's day, and there was the tiniest hint of spring in the air. We were on our way home after having done a spate of shows around Boston and were pretty tired. Ken was behind the wheel, which was a good thing since I was half asleep, when I suddenly got an idea for a melody line, and the name "Lucille" popped into my head at about the same time. When we got home, we worked with the main character. "Lucille" sounded a little like "luck" or "lucky." This guy's some sort of prisoner, or maybe he just feels like one. He's imploring Lucille to put an end to his awful winter confinement.
Ken fleshed out the melody and added a new chord progression--I think it all came together quite nicely. RH
Lucille, Lucille I’m coming home
To take you for a ride
These winter days have ground me down
And I long to see you smile.
Lucille, Lucille I don’t know why
This world should treat me so
For all my sins I must’ve paid by now
Why won’t they let me go?
Lucille, Lucille you teach the sun
To swim across the sky
You make the rivers all to run
And the autumn wind to sigh.
A man would walk one thousand miles
To stand outside your door
Oh won’t you turn your pretty head
And smile on me once more?