{"id":1318837,"date":"2020-03-17T12:21:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T18:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1819144"},"modified":"2020-03-17T12:21:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T18:21:47","slug":"ten-songs-packed-with-the-luck-o-the-irish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/ten-songs-packed-with-the-luck-o-the-irish\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Songs Packed with the Luck o\u2019 the Irish"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Edward Morris<\/a><\/span>
\n21m ago<\/span>
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Ah, \u2019tis St. Patrick\u2019s Day today (March 17), a time during which we all salute the fabled \u201cluck of the Irish,\u201d drink repulsively green beer and shelter in place against the monstrously unlucky spread of the coronavirus. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s also a time to cue up some of those songs that focus on human fortune, both good and bad. While we all can\u2019t be showered with good luck, we can all sing about it as these folk have done so well.<\/p>\n

Please note that these tunes are arranged in the order they lucked out on the Billboard charts. <\/p>\n

1. \u201cUnanswered Prayers\u201d<\/strong> (Garth Brooks, No. 1, 1990)
As Brooks reminds us here, the luckiest things sometime come our way in the guise of the worst things. That guy or girl who broke our heart in high school doesn\u2019t look nearly so alluring now shoving those screaming kids into a minivan.<\/p>\n

2. \u201cIt\u2019s Been a Great Afternoon\u201d<\/strong> (Merle Haggard, No. 2, 1978)
Here is luck in the form of \u201clucking out\u201d romantically. After nursing a hard-won hangover all morning, the singer hits his stride with a little help from his co-conspirator: Well you nursed me through the morning while I was really down\/then one rowdy afternooner got me up and around.<\/em><\/p>\n

3. \u201cI Feel Lucky\u201d <\/strong>(Mary Chapin Carpenter, No. 4, 1992)
You can almost see Carpenter bouncing up and down with glee as a lottery win makes a lie both of her grim daily horoscope and foreboding thunderclouds above her head. The moral of this story, it\u2019s simple but it\u2019s true\/Hey, the stars might lie but the numbers never do. <\/em> And there\u2019s the more durable moral: If you feel<\/em> lucky, you are<\/em> lucky.<\/p>\n

4. \u201cLucky Moon\u201d<\/strong> (Oak Ridge Boys, No. 6, 1991)
Our guy overhears a conversation in which his lover says he\u2019s so neglected her romantically that she plans to leave him tomorrow. So he engages the moon to help him change her mind. Does it work? Judge for yourself.<\/p>\n

5. \u201cLucky Me\u201d <\/strong>(Anne Murray, No. 9, 1980)
What we have here is irony at work. There is no romantic luck for the singer, even as she desperately seeks it. All she witnesses is the good luck in love of others. <\/p>\n

6. \u201cYou Win Again\u201d <\/strong>(Hank Williams, No. 10, 1952)
When love is reduced to a blood sport, there\u2019s only one winner. You have no heart, you have no shame\/You take the love and give the blame\/I guess that I should not complain\/I love you still, you win again.<\/em><\/p>\n

7. \u201cThe Winner\u201d<\/strong> (Bobby Bare, No. 13, 1976)
Leave it to Shel Silverstein to give us the real scoop on life and Bobby Bare\u2019s laconic delivery to make us grin and bear it. The scene is a bar, and a scrappy young drunk decides to take on the legendary brawler, Tiger Man McCool. But before the two go at it, Tiger Man explains to his young opponent some of the \u201cprizes\u201d that come of winning. Now this broken back was the dyin\u2019 act of Handsome Harry Clay\/that sticky Cincinnati night I stole his wife away\/And that woman she gets uglier, and she gets meaner every day\/But I got her, boy, and that\u2019s what makes me a winner.<\/em><\/p>\n

8. \u201cThe Lucky One\u201d<\/strong> (Alison Krauss, No. 46, 2001)
The code of a romantic drifter: Give you a song and a one night stand\/you\u2019ll be looking at a happy man\/\u2019cause you\u2019re the lucky one.<\/em> Not so lucky, though, are the ones left in his wake. <\/p>\n

9. \u201cThat Lucky Old Sun\u201d<\/strong> (Nat Stuckey, No, 66, 1978)
This was a big pop hit in 1949 for Frankie Lane and Vaughn Monroe. Unlike the singer in this song who has to endure a life of disappointments and hard labor, that lucky old sun\u2019s got nothin\u2019 to do\/but roll around heaven all day.<\/em><\/p>\n

10. \u201cLucky Me\u201d<\/strong> (Randy Houser, 2016, not a single)
She walks in and he\u2019s so instantly smitten he just has to sing about it. And what a silver-tongue devil, he is. So in the words of the great, gun-pointing Dirty Harry, \u201cYou\u2019ve just got to ask yourself one question:\u2019Do I feel lucky?\u2019 Well, do you, punk?\u201d<\/p>\n

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