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Unlucky Luke
They ^Csay if you build a better mousetrap the world will beat a ^G7pathway to your house.
If Luke was to build a better mousetrap, somebody'd ^Cbreed a smarter mouse.
If it started raining soup his ^Ffamily'd all have forks,
If ^G7they was to cut a woman in two, he'd get the half that ^Ctalks.
Unlucky ^FLuke, unlucky ^Ckid,
Why he ^G7broke into a betting shop and he lost four hundred ^Cquid.
Now his ^Cparents never loved him like they ^G7did his sister, Kim,
They could tied a kipper 'round his neck to get the ^Ccat to play with him.
And he cried the day that he was ^C7weened 'cause ^Fhe knew even then,
It'd be ^G7twenty years before he was near anything like that a^Cgain.
They put his ^Fcradle on the wardrobe near the ^Cdoor,
So the ^G7folks downstairs could hear him when he fell out on the ^Cfloor.
Now the ^Csaddest day of Luke's unhappy ^G7life, beyond a doubt,
Was the day he went to hospital to ^Cget his tonsils out.
He was on the operating ^C7theatre ^Ftrolley sleeping sound,
When a ^G7short-sighted nurse came past and turned the trolley ^C'round.
Unlucky ^FLuke, no wonder he ^Chollers,
His ^G7sick aunt died and in her will he owed her forty ^Cdollars.
Now Luke ^Cmarried Charlie's widow, a ^G7lady with no manners,
She had a figure like a hippo and ^Cface like a bag of spanners.
She told him she'd four children ^C7in the ^Fcemetery by the creek,
She ^G7forgot to tell him they was down there playin' hide and ^Cseek.
Unlucky ^FLuke, at the age of fifty-^Ctwo,
Had a ^G7wife, a girlfriend and a tax demand and all three were over^Cdue.
Now ^CLuke came home one lunch time, he'd been out ^G7selling lucky charms,
He tripped over a neighbour's cat and ^Cfractures both his arms.
He said, "Hey, that's a black cat, ^C7why that's ^Flucky, I've a hunch."
His ^G7wife said, "That cat's lucky 'cause he's just had your ^Clunch."
Last night he ^Flost his pet alsation ^Cpup,
So he ^G7phoned up the Samaritans but the Samaritans hung ^Cup.
Oh ^CLuke, he had to go to France, his wife said, "^G7I suppose you'll fly."
He said, "With luck like mine the plane'll crash and ^CI'm too young to die."
So he sailed there in the safety ^C7of an ^Focean-going ship,
But ^G7he got drowned when the boat went down when the plane crashed into ^Cit."
Unlucky ^FLuke, unlucky ^CLuke,
Un^G7til the day he died fate was against unlucky ^CLu-^Fuke ^C ^G7 ^C
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