Lyrics to
Lady Luck

This version of Lady Luck was released by Kenny Loggins in 1976.

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If anything, Lady Luck by Kenny Loggins is a song about gambling. It starts out talking about playing at a craps table with lady luck on his side. The song appealed to listeners all over the world, and like a large number of 1970’s hits, the song has become popular internationally in non-English speaking countries.

The song is popular, and so of course is gambling. Nowadays, you can wish Lady Luck is on your side no matter where you are sitting gambling on your computer. In China, you can be on slot357.net while you jam out to this 1970s USA hit. The song goes like this:

Seven-eleven he rolled,
And all his life was a golden gamble.
You’d see him reeling it in when the odds were high.
Something supernatural, a charlatan, a mastermind,
Or some lucky lady’s design.

Oh, what the devil, it’s fun,
His lady luck was his one companion,
And by the silver and gold,
His heart had been bought and bound.
But he chanced to fall in new love,
He kissed her and he cut the tie,
And kissed his lucky lady goodbye.

Oh, spin your wheel of fortune.
Shuffle the cards, blow on the dice.
Are you with me in love,
Like you’ve been with me in life?
If I leave you for a lover,
Would you leave me far behind?

You should’ve known from the start,
She’d take no part in a love triangle.
You have to be her’s alone,
And go it on your own.
‘Cause if you’ve found a new love,
Lady Luck is gonna step aside.
So kiss your lucky lady goodbye.

Spin your wheel of fortune.
Shuffle the cards, blow on the dice.
Are you with me in love,
Like you’ve been with me in life?
If I leave you for an hour,
Would you leave me far behind?

Seven-eleven he rolled,
And all his life was a golden gamble.
You’d see him reeling it in when the odds were high.
Something supernatural, a charlatan, was a mastermind,
Or some lucky lady’s,
Or some jealous lady,
Kiss your lucky lady goodbye.
Don’t pass this way again, goodbye.
Don’t pass this way again, goodbye.

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About Lyrics and Lady Luck by Kenny Loggins

When you decide to study the lyrics to Lady Luck, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1976 song by Kenny Loggins. Some of the lyrics to Lady Luck have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Kenny Loggins and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Lady Luck if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Lady Luck" means the words set to the music of Lady Luck, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Kenny Loggins. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Lady Luck and the lyrics to Lady Luck are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Kenny Loggins who came here looking just for the lyrics to Lady Luck, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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