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Lyrics for There But For Fortune by Phil Ochs:
| | | Artist: | Phil Ochs |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | There But For Fortune | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 49 | | | | Lyrics: | pre>intro: g cm g cm g cm
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Show me a prison, show me a jail,
G em am
d
Show me a prisoner whose face has gone pale
Em c am
And i'll show you a young man
with so many reasons why
Bm g am d
And there but for fortune, may go you or i
Show
me the alley, show me the train,
Show me a hobo who sleeps out in the rain,
And i'll show
you a young man with so many reasons why
There but for fortune, may go you or go i -- you and
i.
Show me the whiskey stains on the floor,
Show me the dunken man as he stumbles out
the door,
And i'll show you a young man with so many reasons why
There but for fortune, may
go you or go i -- you and i.
[extra verse... written by noel paul stookey]
Show me the
famine, show me the frail
Eyes with no future that show how we failed
And i'll show you the
children with so many reasons why
There but for fortune, go you or
i.
Show me the country where bombs had to fall,
Show me the ruins of buildings once so
tall,
And i'll show you a young land with so many reasons why
There but for fortune, go you
or go i -- you and i.
You and i,
There but for fortune, go you or go i -- you and
i.
Here it is in french (supplied by william curtis):
Je vois le prison
Je
vois la nuit
Je vois le prisonnier qui pleure sa vie
Et je me dis souvent
Quand je
m'endors dans tes bras
Ou va la chance, a toi ? a moi ?
Je vois des
blessures
Jamais gueries
Je vois le vagabond
Quit dort sous la pluie
Je vois
cet homme
Au coeur perdu
Qui boit pour ne plus voir
Ce qu'il est devenu
Je vois
des villes
Dont les maisons
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