I must have left my house at eight, because I always do My train, I'm certain, left the station just when it was due I must have read the morning paper going into town And having gotten through the editorial, no doubt I must have frowned I must have made my desk around a quarter after nine With letters to be read, and heaps of papers waiting to be signed I must have gone to lunch at half past twelve or so The usual place, the usual bunch And still on top of this I'm pretty sure it must have rained The day before you came
I must have lit my seventh cigarette at half past two And at the time I never even noticed I was blue I must have kept on dragging through the business of the day Without really knowing anything, I hid a part of me away At five I must have left, there's no exception to the rule A matter of routine, I've done it ever since I finished school The train back home again Undoubtedly I must have read the evening paper then Oh yes, I'm sure my life was well within its usual frame The day before you came
I must have opened my front door at eight o'clock or so And stopped along the way to buy some Chinese food to go I'm sure I had my dinner watching something on TV There's not, I think, a single episode of Dallas that I didn't see I must have gone to bed around a quarter after ten I need a lot of sleep, and so I like to be in bed by then I must have read a while The latest one by Marilyn French or something in that style It's funny, but I had no sense of living without aim The day before you came
And turning out the light I must have yawned and cuddled up for yet another night And rattling on the roof I must have heard the sound of rain The day before you came
Lucille By Kenny Rogers [3/4 time] written by Roger Bowling and Hal Bynum
G In a bar in Toledo across from the depot D7 On a barstool she took off her ring Am D7 I thought I’d get closer so I walked on over Am D7 G I sat down and asked her name When the drink finally hit her she said I’m no quitter G7 C But I finally quit living on dreams D7 I’m hungry for laughter and here ever after G I’m after whatever the other life brings In the mirror I saw him I closely watch him D7 I thought how he looked out of place Am D7 He came to the woman who sat there beside me Am D7 G He had a strange look on his face The big hands are callous he looked like a mountain G7 C For a minute I thought I was dead D7 But he started shaking his big heart was breaking G He turned to the woman and said chorus C You picked the fine time to leave me Lucille G Four hungry children and a crop in the field C I’ve had some bad time live through some sad times G But this time your hurting wouldn’t heal D7 C You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille After he left us I ordered more whiskey D7 I thought how he made him look small Am D7 From lights of the bar room to a rented hotel room G We walked without talking at all She was a beauty but when she came to me G7 C She must have thought I’d lost my mind D7 I couldn’t hold her the words that he told her G Kept coming back time after time repeat chorus
No more champagne And the fireworks are through Here we are, me and you Feeling lost and feeling blue It's the end of the party And the morning seems so grey So unlike yesterday Now's the time for us to say...
Happy new year Happy new year May we all have a vision now and then Of a world where every neighbour is a friend Happy new year Happy new year May we all have our hopes, our will to try If we don't we might as well lay down and die You and I
Sometimes I see How the brave new world arrives And I see how it thrives In the ashes of our lives Oh yes, man is a fool And he thinks he'll be okay Dragging on, feet of clay Never knowing he's astray Keeps on going anyway...
Happy new year Happy new year May we all have a vision now and then Of a world where every neighbour is a friend Happy new year Happy new year May we all have our hopes, our will to try If we don't we might as well lay down and die You and I
Seems to me now That the dreams we had before Are all dead, nothing more Than confetti on the floor It's the end of a decade In another ten years time Who can say what we'll find What lies waiting down the line In the end of eighty-nine...
Happy new year Happy new year May we all have a vision now and then Of a world where every neighbour is a friend Happy new year Happy new year May we all have our hopes, our will to try If we don't we might as well lay down and die You and I