I Feel Lucky
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| "I Feel Lucky" | ||||
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| Single by Mary Chapin Carpenter | ||||
| from the album Come On Come On | ||||
| B-side | "Middle Ground" | |||
| Released | May 18, 1992 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 3:31 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Mary Chapin Carpenter, Don Schlitz | |||
| Producer(s) | Mary Chapin Carpenter, John Jennings | |||
| Mary Chapin Carpenter singles chronology | ||||
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"I Feel Lucky" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Mary Chapin Carpenter. It was released in May 1992 as the first single from the album Come On Come On. The song reached number 4 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.[1] The Chipettes recorded a cover of this song for the 1992 album Chipmunks in Low Places. It was written by Carpenter and Don Schlitz.
The song tells the story of a woman who repeatedly receives bad omens for the upcoming day: her horoscope warns that "the stars are stacked against" her and to stay in bed, but she disregards it, heads for the convenience store, buys a lottery ticket, cigarettes, a burrito and a root beer, and heads for the park, where a thunderstorm and a voice from the skies warns her to head home. She disregards the voice just as she did with the horoscope saying "I feel lucky."
The lottery ticket turns out to be an $11 million winner, and she heads to the bar to celebrate, where she meets Lyle Lovett and Dwight Yoakam, who both make passes at her. The moral of the story: "the stars might lie, but the numbers never do."
Personnel
Credits are adapted from the liner notes of Come On Come On.[2]
- J. T. Brown – bass guitar, background vocals
- Mary Chapin Carpenter – vocals
- Jon Carroll – piano, backing vocals
- John Jennings – acoustic and electric guitars, backing vocals
- Robbie Magruder – drums
- Mike McAdam – electric guitar
