UFS 05 A Chance Too Many
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A Chance Too Many
A good old-fashioned boogie with the lyrics built around that hook line... The chorus references both an Oscar Wilde quote* and an old, anonymous Irish poem'.**
UFS 05 A chance too many
E A E
I was doing what it takes, really on the make, I was flying
A E
Don’t even think to wonder, no one could steal my thunder, I ain’t lying
B B7
Then I took a chance too many, let my feet get off the ground
G A E
Took a chance too many and my world came tumbling down
I was jumping I was humping, I was on a roll
It was sweeter it was neater, I was in control
Then I took a chance too many, what’s that crashing sound
Took a chance too many and my world came tumbling down
A
So I’m back here in the gutter, looking up at the stars
E G E
But it’s better than a prison cell, there are no iron bars
A
Still it would be kindly, it would be so sweet
B B+7
If you could give me a hand to get me back up on my feet
You can tell a man who boozes by the company he chooses it’s true
If I’d have stayed cold sober, then my worries would be over with you
But I took a chance too many, my head was spinning round and round
Took a chance too many and my world came tumbling down
* We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde
** A Man Who Boozes
An Irish Poem of Unknown Origin
It was a year ago, September
a day I well remember
I was walking up and down
in drunken pride
when my knees began to flutter
and I fell down in the gutter
and a pig came by and lay down by my side
As I lay there in the gutter
thinking thoughts I could not utter
I thought I heard a passing lady say,
"You can tell a man who boozes
by the company he chooses..."
And with that, the pig got up and walked away