Name: UFS 05 A Chance too Many
Duration: 3 min 25 s
Channel: Martin Stirrup
Description: Free MP3 download. A good old-fashioned boogie with the lyrics built around that hook line...

UFS 05 A Chance too Many

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A good old-fashioned boogie with the lyrics built around that hook line...

boogie chances

martin stirrup

Singer-songwriter, arranger and producer: acoustic contemporary folk but ranging into rock/blues/country/jazz/humour...all very eclectic, I'm afraid!

Martin Stirrup Singer/songwriter An old folkie who got back into it... These days I sing and play guitar(s) and other stringed instruments, then score and orchestrate where appropriate. My taste becomes increasingly eclectic ranging from finger-picked folk through country to soft rock mixed in with a few more alternative and eccentric numbers, including the odd novelty foxtrot...

Song Info

Genre

Rock • Rock General

Charts

Peak #68

Peak in subgenre #22

Author

Martin Stirrup

Rights

Martin Stirrup

Uploaded

August 10, 2015

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.9 MB • 160 kbps • 3:25

Story behind the song

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'

Lyrics

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

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