Greasy Luck

Author: Stephen W. Cote

My baby's gone, I'm alone in a one horse town

She left behind an iron line she'd run through the ground.

Her words were fast and loose, had my head in a noose

She had her fiddle in a groove

And if I'd turned the table, if I'd turned the tide

It was by the skin of my tooth

This time I belled the cat, upset the fish, and buried an axe

But she's no real McCoy, she's tried that ploy, it's my turn to fight back

I'll take my time by the forelock in my fine Italian hand

Her jig is up

And if I succeed and make her plead

I guess that's just my greasy luck

Every man with an elbow has a his own grease

Coat the squeaks and in a few weeks you'll have some greasy luck.