When we left, it was cold.
Each other's hands we had to hold.
We was drunk in Tennessee.
She got drunk, as drunk as me.

She run up the hill, she cried and cried;
I run down the other side.
Ooh, Sweet Lucy
Ooh, Sweet Lucy,
Ooh, Sweet Lucy, let me go!

Police come, they took my wine.
They put us in jail, hundred-dollar fine.
I could hear her cryin' over the wall
In the women's detention hall.

I got on the phone, my mama spoke,
"Sorry, son, but your mama's broke!"
Ooh, Sweet Lucy
Ooh, Sweet Lucy,
Ooh, Sweet Lucy, let me go!

Wherever I go I get sad.
Seems like sorrow lives in the air.
In the wide-open skies of California,
They have sorrow way out there.
Five gets ya ten that ya don't get past;
Five gets ya ten that ya better go fast.
Ooh, Sweet Lucy
Ooh, Sweet Lucy,
Ooh, Sweet Lucy, let me go!

Oh, Harry Hubcaps and Jack the Fluke,
They bought a bottle for Luke.
They was buddies, but they had a fight;
They broke the jukebox, they broke the light.

Big ol' Fluke weigh three-hundred pounds;
Fell on Harry when Harry fell down.
Ooh, Sweet Lucy
Ooh, Sweet Lucy,
Ooh, Sweet Lucy, let me go!

My old lady says, "Gimme that wine."
I said, "Honey, quit drinking sometime."
She said, "Snock, it's not my fault!
Had to eat my porkchop without no salt."

She run up the hill, she cried and cried.
I run down the other side;
Ooh, Sweet Lucy
Ooh, Sweet Lucy,
Ooh, Sweet Lucy, let me go!
Ooh, Sweet Lucy
Ooh, Sweet Lucy,
Ooh, Sweet Lucy, let me go!