A song about being down on your luck for years, and one of their finest I think.

You never know the soul of a city, he said, until you are down on your luck.

"I rather suspected you were down on your luck," Marion answered sympathetically.

I wouldn't turn you away, Alan, if you were down on your luck.'

It is particularly hard to take from people who will never know what it is like to be down on your luck, unemployed and homeless.

"Come, sir," I said, shaking his majesty by the shoulder, "don't be down on your luck.

IF YOU were down on your luck in Devon in the early 18th Century, you could count on a hot meal at Bowden House, near Totnes.