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==Lyrics==
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'''Act I'''<br>
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'''SCENE EIGHT'''<br>
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'''LUCILLE HAS MESSED MY MIND UP'''<br>
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<br>
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''(JOE is so disoriented by his disease, he goes in the other room and plays the title cut from an old Jeff Simmons album, and sings along with it.)''<br>
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'''JOE:'''<br>
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Lucille<br>
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Has messed my mind up<br>
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But I still love her<br>
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Oh I still love her<br>
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Lucille<br>
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Has messed my mind up<br>
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But I still love her<br>
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Oh I still love her<br>
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Lucille<br>
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Has messed my mind up<br>
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But I still need her you know I need her<br>
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Whatcha tryna doota me Lucille?<br>
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Whatcha tryna doota me Lucille?<br>
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Whatcha tryna doota me Lucille?<br>
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You got me goin outa my mind<br>
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<br>
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Lucille<br>
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Has tore my heart up<br>
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But I still love her<br>
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I really love her<br>
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Lucille<br>
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Has tore my heart up<br>
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But I still need her<br>
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You know I need her<br>
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She treats me like my heart is made of stone<br>
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She runs around and leaves me home all alone<br>
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She doesn't answer when I call her on the phone<br>
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She messed up my mind, I'm cryin' alia the time<br>
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<br>
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Lucille<br>
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Has messed my mind<br>
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up etc., etc., etc.<br>
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=Notes about this song=
 
=Notes about this song=
Originally recorded for [[Jeff Simmons]]' album [[Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up (The Album)|Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up]] in 1969.  Zappa refers to this recording in [[Joe's Garage Act 1]]
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Originally recorded for [[Jeff Simmons]]' album [[Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up (The Album)|Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up]] in 1969.  Zappa refers to this recording in [[Joe's Garage Act I]]
  
 
<blockquote>Joe is so disoriented by his disease, he goes in the
 
<blockquote>Joe is so disoriented by his disease, he goes in the
 
other room and plays the title cut from an old
 
other room and plays the title cut from an old
 
[[Jeff Simmons]] [[Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up (The Album)|album]], and sings along with it.</blockquote>
 
[[Jeff Simmons]] [[Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up (The Album)|album]], and sings along with it.</blockquote>
<div align=right> - Scene Eight of  [[Joe's Garage Act 1]]</div>
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<div align=right> - Scene Eight of  [[Joe's Garage Act I]]</div>
  
  
<blockquote>This is the CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER . . . again. Hi! . . . It's me again, the CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER . . . Joe says Lucille has messed his mind up, but, was it the girl or was it the music? As you can see . . . girls, music, disease, heartbreak . . . they all go together . . . Joe found out the hard way, but his troubles were just beginning . . . his mind was so messed up . . . he could hardly do nothin' . . . He was in a quandary . . . being devoured by the swirling cesspool of his own steaming desires . . . the guy was a wreck . . . so . . . what does he do? For once, he does something SMART . . . he goes out . . . and pays a lot of money to L. Ron Hoover . . . at the First . . . at the Pch . . . hem . . . he goes out . . . and pays a lot of money to L. Ron Hoover . . . at the First Church of Appliantology! <blockquote>
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<blockquote>This is the CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER . . . again. Hi! . . . It's me again, the CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER . . . Joe says Lucille has messed his mind up, but, was it the girl or was it the music? As you can see . . . girls, music, disease, heartbreak . . . they all go together . . . Joe found out the hard way, but his troubles were just beginning . . . his mind was so messed up . . . he could hardly do nothin' . . . He was in a quandary . . . being devoured by the swirling cesspool of his own steaming desires . . . the guy was a wreck . . . so . . . what does he do? For once, he does something SMART . . . he goes out . . . and pays a lot of money to L. Ron Hoover . . . at the First . . . at the Pch . . . hem . . . he goes out . . . and pays a lot of money to L. Ron Hoover . . . at the First Church of Appliantology! </blockquote>
  
 
<div align=right> - [[Scrutinizer Postlude]]</div>
 
<div align=right> - [[Scrutinizer Postlude]]</div>
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=Versions of this song=
 
=Versions of this song=
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**[[Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up (The Album)|Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up]]
 
**[[Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up (The Album)|Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up]]
 
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==1979 - Los Angeles==
 
==1979 - Los Angeles==

Latest revision as of 09:35, 31 October 2021


Lyrics

Act I

SCENE EIGHT
LUCILLE HAS MESSED MY MIND UP

(JOE is so disoriented by his disease, he goes in the other room and plays the title cut from an old Jeff Simmons album, and sings along with it.)

JOE:
Lucille
Has messed my mind up
But I still love her
Oh I still love her
Lucille
Has messed my mind up
But I still love her
Oh I still love her
Lucille
Has messed my mind up
But I still need her you know I need her

Whatcha tryna doota me Lucille?
Whatcha tryna doota me Lucille?
Whatcha tryna doota me Lucille?
You got me goin outa my mind

Lucille
Has tore my heart up
But I still love her
I really love her
Lucille
Has tore my heart up
But I still need her
You know I need her

She treats me like my heart is made of stone
She runs around and leaves me home all alone
She doesn't answer when I call her on the phone
She messed up my mind, I'm cryin' alia the time

Lucille
Has messed my mind
up etc., etc., etc.

Notes about this song

Originally recorded for Jeff Simmons' album Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up in 1969. Zappa refers to this recording in Joe's Garage Act I

Joe is so disoriented by his disease, he goes in the

other room and plays the title cut from an old

Jeff Simmons album, and sings along with it.

- Scene Eight of Joe's Garage Act I


This is the CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER . . . again. Hi! . . . It's me again, the CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER . . . Joe says Lucille has messed his mind up, but, was it the girl or was it the music? As you can see . . . girls, music, disease, heartbreak . . . they all go together . . . Joe found out the hard way, but his troubles were just beginning . . . his mind was so messed up . . . he could hardly do nothin' . . . He was in a quandary . . . being devoured by the swirling cesspool of his own steaming desires . . . the guy was a wreck . . . so . . . what does he do? For once, he does something SMART . . . he goes out . . . and pays a lot of money to L. Ron Hoover . . . at the First . . . at the Pch . . . hem . . . he goes out . . . and pays a lot of money to L. Ron Hoover . . . at the First Church of Appliantology!

- Scrutinizer Postlude


Versions of this song

1969 - Glendale

Details of this version


1979 - Los Angeles

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1984 - Chicago

Details of this version