It’s funny to be asked this question in the Song of the Day Challenge Day 29: A Song From Our Childhood. The other day Kenny Rogers passed away and I remember riding in my dads car when the song Lucille would come on the Radio.
My brother and I would belt out 400 children and a crop in the field as this is what we thought Kenny was saying. When in reality it was 4 children and a crop in the Fields. LOL
I don’t talk to my brother much about our childhood but the other day when they was doing a Memorial to Kenny Rogers I sent my brother a message on Facebook and asked him if he remembered what 400 children and a crop in the Field was.
He immediately said Lucille and asked me why I wanted to know if he remembered it. I said because there doing a Memorial to Kenny and I am watching it. My brother said what channel and I will talk to you later I am going to watch the show for mom and dad.
“Lucille” is a song written by Roger Bowling and Hal Bynum, and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Rogers. It was released in January 1977 as the second and final single from the album Kenny Rogers. It became Rogers’ first major hit as a solo artist after leaving the successful country/rock group The First Edition the previous year. An international hit, it reached number 1 on the Billboard Country Singles chart and number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100.[2] Overseas, “Lucille” reached the top of the UK Singles Chart in June 1977,[3] the first of Rogers’ two number one singles there.[4]
Lyrics:
In a bar in Toledo across from the depot
On a barstool she took off her ring
I thought I’d get closer
So I walked on over
I sat down and asked her name
When the drink finally hit her
She said I’m no quitter
But I finally quit living on dreams
I’m hungry for laughter
And here ever after
I’m after whatever
The other life brings
In the mirror I saw him
And I closely watch him
I thought how he looked out of place
He came to the woman
Who sat their beside me
He had a strange look on his face
The big hands were calloused
He looked like a mountain
For a minute I thought I was dead
But he started shakin’
His big heart was breakin’
He turned to the woman and said
“You picked the fine time to leave me Lucille
Four hungry children and a crop in the field
I’ve had some bad times
Lived thru’ some sad times
But this time your hurtin’ won’t heal
You picked the fine time to leave me Lucille”
After he left us, I ordered more whiskey
I thought how she made him look small
From the lights of the bar room to a rented hotel room
We walked without talking at all
She was a beauty, but when she came to me
She must have thought I lost my mind
I couldn’t hold her, ‘coz the words that he told her
Kept coming back time after time
You picked the fine time to leave me Lucille
Four hungry children and a crop in the field
I’ve had some bad times
Lived thru’ some sad times
But this time your hurtin’ won’t heal
You picked the fine time to leave me Lucille
You picked the fine time to leave me Lucille
Four hungry children and a crop in the field
I’ve had some bad times
Lived thru’ some sad times
But this time your hurtin’ won’t heal
You picked the fine time to leave me Lucille
