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Author Topic: (14) Fat chance Dupree  (Read 3860 times)

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Re: (14) Fat chance Dupree
« Reply #15 on: April 14, 2024, 02:06:02 PM »
Fantastic tune, listened in full quite a few times this morning and absolutely love this 'Secondary Waltz' like tune...very funny too...
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Re: (14) Fat chance Dupree
« Reply #16 on: April 15, 2024, 04:32:06 PM »
This film/story must have been what inspired the song: https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/60872

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Re: (14) Fat chance Dupree
« Reply #17 on: April 15, 2024, 08:14:08 PM »
Golly, how on earth did you find that?
It's amazing that you should have found it, and even more amazing that KM should watch a film from 1915 and then go and write a song about it. It seems that he really loves America, because for most people watching a film like that in our day would just be a waste of time.
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Re: (14) Fat chance Dupree
« Reply #18 on: April 15, 2024, 08:32:05 PM »
KM?
I know the way I can see by the moonlight
Clear as the day
Now come on woman, come follow me home

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Re: (14) Fat chance Dupree
« Reply #19 on: April 15, 2024, 08:35:07 PM »
Knopfler, Mark ;)
...Well, he's a big star now but I've been a fan of his for years. The way he sings and plays guitar still bring me to tears...

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Re: (14) Fat chance Dupree
« Reply #20 on: April 15, 2024, 08:38:47 PM »
That's what I suspected  :)
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Re: (14) Fat chance Dupree
« Reply #21 on: April 15, 2024, 08:54:28 PM »
MK, of course.  :)
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Re: (14) Fat chance Dupree
« Reply #22 on: April 15, 2024, 09:09:18 PM »
"Fat Chance Dupree"

Fat Chance Dupree
Had it in for me
The cause of which I never could divine
Well they say it had to be
Some kind of fear or jealousy
Anyhow, I did not see it at the time

Now Fat Chance Dupree
Was a trapper same as me
Could have been a reason I suppose
In the winter he'd come down
From his mountain hunting grounds
But I never wanted any part of those

But who knows why
I wish I knew
We feel the things we feel
Do the things we do
Yeah who knows why
I wish I knew
We feel the things we feel
Do the things we do

Kitty Mary used to come around
The most beautiful woman in town
We'd keep each other happy now and then
She did let fall that Chance Dupree
Might try to waylay me
In the cottonwoods down by the river bend

I thought: Come on if you're comin'
Come on Fats
Come on if you're comin'
Good luck with that

Now Fat Chance Dupree
Was lying in wait for me
Which I took to be considerable unkind
I took his weapon from his hand
Which made him understand
He should not have took the path he had in mind

But who knows why
I wish I knew
We feel the things we feel
Do the things we do
Yeah who knows why
I wish I knew
We feel the things we feel
Do the things we do
I know the way I can see by the moonlight
Clear as the day
Now come on woman, come follow me home

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Re: (14) Fat chance Dupree
« Reply #23 on: April 15, 2024, 10:06:25 PM »
This film/story must have been what inspired the song: https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/60872

Thank you for the tip:)
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Clear as the day
Now come on woman, come follow me home

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Re: (14) Fat chance Dupree
« Reply #24 on: April 16, 2024, 02:06:11 PM »
Golly, how on earth did you find that?
It's amazing that you should have found it, and even more amazing that KM should watch a film from 1915 and then go and write a song about it. It seems that he really loves America, because for most people watching a film like that in our day would just be a waste of time.

I'd actually love to see this film, but I've got NO CLUE where Mark was able to watch it ...

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Re: (14) Fat chance Dupree
« Reply #25 on: April 18, 2024, 12:01:16 AM »
Can't stop listening to this one :clap

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Re: (14) Fat chance Dupree
« Reply #26 on: April 24, 2024, 09:41:41 PM »
This really is a good one, really like it. I found myself whistling it at work yesterday which is a good sign.
From the same family as Stand Up Guy. Should have been on the album as a nice variation.

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Yes, that's right, the same family as Stand Up Guy:) Maybe this song even takes place at the same time. I really like this song.
I know the way I can see by the moonlight
Clear as the day
Now come on woman, come follow me home

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Re: (14) Fat chance Dupree
« Reply #27 on: April 25, 2024, 07:38:05 PM »
This story is really fascinating. I know what the first question I would ask MK :)

Jean and Pierre are Canadian trappers, but also in league with moonshiners in the north woods, and carry illicit whiskey concealed in their loads of furs. In Jean's cabin there is a hiding place for the jugs until the regular weekly trip to the trading post with furs, when they are transferred to a secluded hut, a step further on to the settlements. Pierre is in love with Marie Dupree, the daughter of his partner, Jean. Marie is a capricious coquette, really in love with Paul Marr, a member of the mounted police, though she torments him without mercy. She has only contempt for the trapper, Pierre. When Marie meets Hugo Sinclaire, a recruit in the police, she forgets the more quiet Paul, and imagines herself deeply in love with the newly-met officer. Her father discovers her secret meetings with Hugo, and forbids her to see him. Hugo has only been amusing himself with Marie, and openly boasts of his conquest in the guard room of the post. Paul comes to the girl's defense, and only the interference of others prevents serious trouble. When Marie fails to meet Hugo as usual he goes to her father's cabin and surprises Jean in the act of concealing the jugs of illicit whiskey. He attempts to capture Jean, and in the struggle the trapper is injured, and as he is falling to the floor he fires at Hugo. From the inner room where she has been made a prisoner by her father Marie hears the shot and tries frantically to release herself. Hugo goes to her assistance, but as he reaches the door he is shot and killed by Pierre, who has crept to the window and has taken the opportunity to rid himself of his rival. When Jean regains consciousness he finds the body of Hugo and imagines himself to be the murderer. In terror he drags the body to the road, and then returns to sink before the shrine of the Virgin in prayer. Hugo's body is found by the police, who, remembering Paul's quarrel with the dead man, accuse him and cause his arrest. Marie learns of Paul's peril and hurries to Father John, a priest, for advice. Under his urging, Jean confesses the crime, and Paul is liberated. Pierre, returning alone with a cargo of skins and whiskey, is set upon by a party of half-breed renegades and badly wounded. He is brought into the post by the police, just as Jean is being led away. Dying. Pierre confesses to Father John that it was he who killed Hugo and that Jean is innocent. That evening Jean kneels before the shrine with the priest, promising to give up his connection with the moonshiners. In the moonlit woods. Paul takes Marie in his arms.
I know the way I can see by the moonlight
Clear as the day
Now come on woman, come follow me home

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Re: (14) Fat chance Dupree
« Reply #28 on: September 15, 2024, 12:38:16 PM »
The definition of the word"divine" as a verb was so unexpected to me. It is interesting to learn about its etymology:
https://www.etymonline.com/word/divine
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