About The Song
“My Last Chance With You” is a song recorded by Buck Owens & His Buckaroos and appears on the 1963 album Buck Owens Sings Tommy Collins, released by Capitol Records on November 11, 1963. The record collected songs written by Tommy Collins and was produced during sessions at Capitol in Hollywood in July 1963, a period when Owens was refining the tight, guitar-forward Bakersfield sound that would define much of his mid-1960s work. :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0}
The song itself was written by Tommy Collins, whose songs made up the backbone of the album; Collins was a prolific California songwriter whose compositions were frequently picked up by Bakersfield artists. Owens’s decision to dedicate a full LP to Collins material reflects both Collins’s influence on that regional scene and Owens’s respect for straightforward, melody-driven country tunes. :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}
Clocking in at roughly two and a half minutes, “My Last Chance With You” uses a compact narrative voice common to Collins’s writing and Owens’s interpretations: the singer waits, hopes and plans around a pivotal, possibly final, opportunity to win a lover back. The lyric concentrates on small, specific images — rehearsed lines, worried anticipation, and the quiet urgency of “one last chance” — which keeps the song immediate and suited to radio play and live sets. Streaming and lyric sources reproduce the same concise phrasing heard on the original album track. :contentReference[oaicite:2]{index=2}
The record credits place Don Rich and the Buckaroos at the center of the arrangement, with Ken Nelson producing the sessions at Capitol. Don Rich’s guitar and harmony work, plus the pedal steel and brisk rhythm section, give the track its characteristic twang and momentum; those recording choices were a deliberate contrast to the smoother, string-heavy Nashville productions of the same era. :contentReference[oaicite:3]{index=3}
Although “My Last Chance With You” was not issued as a hit single for Owens, the album that contains it reached No. 1 on Billboard’s country albums chart, and several tracks from the same period sustained Owens’s presence on radio and jukeboxes. The song’s status as an album cut rather than a standalone single is typical of many Bakersfield recordings where LPs and live performance repertoires preserved songs that never climbed the singles charts. :contentReference[oaicite:4]{index=4}
Over time the track has turned up on Buck Owens compilations and streaming reissues, offering listeners a compact example of Owens interpreting an important West Coast songwriter. Reissues on Sundazed and inclusion in retrospective box sets have kept the recording available to modern audiences who study the Bakersfield style or the cross-pollination of Collins’s songs through other artists’ catalogs. :contentReference[oaicite:5]{index=5}
Beyond the specific recording, the song sits within a larger story: Tommy Collins’s songwriting helped shape a generation of California country players, and Owens’s recordings of Collins material helped spread those songs to a wider audience. Listening closely to “My Last Chance With You” reveals the economy of phrasing and the band-first arrangement that made Owens & His Buckaroos a defining act of 1960s country music. :contentReference[oaicite:6]{index=6}
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Lyric
Since you told me yesterday there were things you had to say
I’ve been waiting for my last chance with you
Something big is on your mind like a spring you must unwind
So I’m waiting for my last chance with you
I’m preparing for tomorrow when you’ll break the news to me
I dare not show my sorrow it’s not a shoulder that I need
I’ve a need for you to love me and I tear somebody new
So I’m waiting for my last chance with youI’ve rehearsed the scene all over pretending you were here
I’ve been practicing the presence of you
I’ve been wondering how you’d tell me and planning what I’d do
While thinking bout my last chance with you
If I don’t win you tomorrow something tells me someone will
Wish I knew where I could borrow some love making skill
I’ve a need for you to love me and I tear somebody new
So I’m waiting for my last chance with you