# You picked a fine time to leave me,Lucille **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 5, 2000, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-picked-a-fine-time-to-leave-me-lucille/39797 "2000-11-05T07:17:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-picked-a-fine-time-to-leave-me-lucille/39797/21 "2016-01-22T19:26:40Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I never misheard that line, but I always replace ‘four hungry children’ with ‘four hundred children’. I always meant to come up with more parody lyrics, but never got to it. > > . One of my local DJs would always some on afterwards and say “Wow – 400 Kids!” ---
**Author:** ![RadioWave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/91b2a8/32.png) [@RadioWave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadioWave)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-picked-a-fine-time-to-leave-me-lucille/39797/22 "2016-01-22T20:15:31Z")
> [@achiappanza](#): > > I’ve just been on a jaunt this morning to try to find the origins of singalong parts to songs like “Sweet Caroline” and “Lucille.” I remember going to see this one man band in San Jose in 1985… guy’s name was Frank Joseph and he did both of those. He claimed to have invented the Lucille parts, but it was a little different than the one cited here. I don’t remember it exactly, but it started with “you bitch, you slut, you slime-sucking whore” and finished with “you make me sick!” > > I went back a few years later and he expressed chagrin that other people had been stealing his bit. Frank Joseph was the first person I heard it from too. Would have been @Mountain Charley’s sometime about 1990. I didn’t realize that was something that he (presumably) made up himself. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-picked-a-fine-time-to-leave-me-lucille/39797/23 "2016-01-22T21:28:13Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I never misheard that line, but I always replace ‘four hungry children’ with ‘four hundred children’. I always meant to come up with more parody lyrics, but never got to it. > . I have a Car Talk CD of parody songs, with a version called “You picked a fine time to leave me Loose Wheel.” ---
**Author:** ![BobArrgh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobarrgh/32/2881_2.png) [@BobArrgh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobArrgh)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2016, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-picked-a-fine-time-to-leave-me-lucille/39797/24 "2016-01-23T14:01:06Z")
Wow! This has to be one of the oldest zombies ever dug up on the SDMB. Everybody join in on this chorus: \* You picked a fine time to wake up this thread – Fifty-five hundred fifty-seven days it was dead. In that time there were great posts, And thousands of great jokes, And songs that get stuck in your head! You picked a fine time to wake up this thread. \* ---
**Author:** ![Swamprapper7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@Swamprapper7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swamprapper7)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-picked-a-fine-time-to-leave-me-lucille/39797/25 "2018-01-09T14:36:04Z")
Thank you to the person who remembered the name Frank Joseph it’s been so long since I’ve heard that. Here is how I remember his version… you bitch you whore you acumbag you slut. You slime you dog you bloodsucking worm you bimbo you buthole and you make me sick…four hungry children… I think sometime later people added… make me sick. And I’m not gonna take anymore of your shit… four hungry children… Amazing times!! ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-picked-a-fine-time-to-leave-me-lucille/39797/26 "2018-01-09T16:18:14Z")
> [@Weirddave](#): > > Im sorry. I CAN’T be the only one. When I hear this song ( as I just did) I STILL add these lines to the chorus. “You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille.” and I addd " you bitch, you slut, you whore. You suck, you swallow, you love it." Is it just me? Is my delequent college education shining through? Or do y’all do the same thing? Strange–I’ve always added those lines to _Away in a Manger._ ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-picked-a-fine-time-to-leave-me-lucille/39797/27 "2018-01-09T16:25:07Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Strange–I’ve always added those lines to _Away in a Manger._ If Mary had swallowed we’d have a very different set of fall and spring holidays. Happy Garglemas everyone! Remember, after Palm Sunday comes… Eather! Enjoy, Steven [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-picked-a-fine-time-to-leave-me-lucille/39797.md?page=1)