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anyone remember that song?
It was Kenny Rogers first single as a solo artist.
he penned the lyrics after a memory from his past. he had been traveling by train. and was stopped in toledo. Across from the train station was a hotel. while drinking in the hotel lounge, he met a woman who had just left her husband. kenny hit it up with her. eventually her crying husband showed up and left crying. the woman would later end up in his room, only for him to have her leave, because he couldn't get over the site of her crying husband.
In a bar in Toledo
Across from the depot
On a bar stool 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 drinks finally hit her
She said I'm no quitter
But I finally quit livin' 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 watched him
I thought how he looked out of place
He came to the woman
Who sat there 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 a fine time to leave me Lucille
With four hungry children
And a crop in the field
I've had some bad times
Lived through some sad times
But this time your hurtin' won't heal
You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille
After he left us
I ordered more whisky
I thought how she'd made him look small
From the lights of the bar room
To a rented hotel room
We walked without talkin' at all
She was a beauty
But when she came to me
She must have thought I'd lost my mind
I could'nt hold her
'Cos the words that he told her
Kept coming back time after time
You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille
With four hungry children
And a crop in the field
I've had some bad times
Lived through some sad times
But this time your hurtin' won't heal
You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille
Well, that hotel & bar would be the Park Hotel. Right across from the Amtrak station. It's been closed for a number of years. boarded up and falling apart. Once, one of the most illustrious hotels in the area. Particularly in the Hey Day of Amtrak.
There is a bar in one side that's still open. but it's a typical hole in the wall neighborhood watering hole. But, it does occupy part of the space of the original hotel lounge. A few years ago the bar was called Lucille's . But no longer.
Park Hotel by jaythomson, on Flickr
my apologies for the less than wonderful photo. the daughter and i were out the other day shooting our first rolls of black and white film. and only our second day with slr's. had some exposure issues due to inexperience and ignorance in regards to metering. we also processed the film ourselves. our first time with that a well. Then scanned in and mildly edited.
It was Kenny Rogers first single as a solo artist.
he penned the lyrics after a memory from his past. he had been traveling by train. and was stopped in toledo. Across from the train station was a hotel. while drinking in the hotel lounge, he met a woman who had just left her husband. kenny hit it up with her. eventually her crying husband showed up and left crying. the woman would later end up in his room, only for him to have her leave, because he couldn't get over the site of her crying husband.
In a bar in Toledo
Across from the depot
On a bar stool 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 drinks finally hit her
She said I'm no quitter
But I finally quit livin' 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 watched him
I thought how he looked out of place
He came to the woman
Who sat there 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 a fine time to leave me Lucille
With four hungry children
And a crop in the field
I've had some bad times
Lived through some sad times
But this time your hurtin' won't heal
You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille
After he left us
I ordered more whisky
I thought how she'd made him look small
From the lights of the bar room
To a rented hotel room
We walked without talkin' at all
She was a beauty
But when she came to me
She must have thought I'd lost my mind
I could'nt hold her
'Cos the words that he told her
Kept coming back time after time
You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille
With four hungry children
And a crop in the field
I've had some bad times
Lived through some sad times
But this time your hurtin' won't heal
You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille
Well, that hotel & bar would be the Park Hotel. Right across from the Amtrak station. It's been closed for a number of years. boarded up and falling apart. Once, one of the most illustrious hotels in the area. Particularly in the Hey Day of Amtrak.
There is a bar in one side that's still open. but it's a typical hole in the wall neighborhood watering hole. But, it does occupy part of the space of the original hotel lounge. A few years ago the bar was called Lucille's . But no longer.
Park Hotel by jaythomson, on Flickr
my apologies for the less than wonderful photo. the daughter and i were out the other day shooting our first rolls of black and white film. and only our second day with slr's. had some exposure issues due to inexperience and ignorance in regards to metering. we also processed the film ourselves. our first time with that a well. Then scanned in and mildly edited.
