I Lost It

Album: Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (1998)
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  • According to a backstage conversation with Williams after she and her band opened for Tom Petty in suburban Detroit, her inspiration for this song was seeing a bumper sticker asking, "Have you found Jesus?" which caused her to ask herself if she had lost him. >>>
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    Patrick - Royal Oak, MI
  • A faster-paced version of this song originally appeared on Williams' Happy Woman Blues album in 1980, but is more often associated with its re-release on her breakthrough album Car Wheels On A Gravel Road.

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  • Dmax from LsuIn the ladder 70s, the “I found it“ bumper stickers were popular. I bought a few that said “I lost it“ as a joke and to sell for a few pennies. Lucinda says she saw those bumper stickers and it was the genesis for this song.
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