With a Little Bit of Luck With a Little Bit of Luck "With a Little Bit of Luck" is a popular song by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, written for the 1956 Broadway play "My Fair Lady". It was sung by Stanley Holloway as Alfred P. Doolittle in both the original stage and film versions. It is sung by Eliza's bin man father, Alfred P. Doolittle and is about a list of everyday situations which one finds themselves in, and a desire to take the easy way out as "With a Little Bit of Luck" one's fate might change, thus avoiding any responsibility. The song
I Saw My Lady Weepe I Saw My Lady Weepe "I Saw My Lady Weepe" is a lute song from "The Second Book of Songs" by Renaissance lutenist and composer John Dowland. It is the first song in the "Second Book" and is dedicated to Anthony Holborne. It is an example of Dowland's use of chromaticism. While composing "I Saw My Lady Weepe" , Dowland was influenced by what has been referred to as the "Elizabethan Melancholy" or "Cult of Darkness." Flow my tears, the song that follows it, and other songs in the "Second Booke" also show this influence. Robin Headlam Wells stated that