What's your favorite song about second chances?

I was thinking about this song In a different context this week.

I listened to an excellent Lost Notes podcast on 'the True Story of Tainted Love'.

The show features a recording of Gloria Jones' version of the song being played in a Northern Soul club. You can hear the crowd's handclaps, which morphed into the blasts of synth on Soft Cell's hit.

This made me think, again, about things that have been added into songs by an audience.

So, there are extra handclaps for Whisky in The Jar, a rude chant in Living Next Door to Alice, clapping and a shout of 'Chelsea' for the Liquidator, and four claps, or at Pogues shows, 'God Bless the Pogues' for this song.

In each case it's a surprise the first time you hear the crowd-sourced addition, but it sounds integral thereafter

Anyway, coming back to the point, this song is a classic of second, or third, or umpteenth chances

I'll go home to my parents, confess what I've done
And I'll ask them to pardon their prodigal son
And when they've caressed me as oft' times before
Then I never will play the wild rover no more

"The Wild Rover" by The Pogues.

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