There are several versions of "Little Chance". The original which begins "I had a little galloway, her name was Little Chance" was all about a coalpit incident. It was later picked up by a northeastern music hall singer who wrote the words that Bill Sables posted above. Incidently the phrase "ower the walls oot" refers to children's street cricket where the batsmen was out if he knocked the ball over anyone's wall.

A friend of mine, Dave Blagrove, took the tune and modified the song into a canal one - using a couple of the music hall ones as well. You'll find it in the DT as THE SINGLE BOLINDER. BTW A bolinder is a single cylinder semi-diesel engine of about 4 litre capacity - one of the first designs of internal combustion engines to become popular on canal boats.