There But For Lyrics - Singles - Ochs Phil

Joan Baez 

Show me a prison, show me a jail 

Show me a prisoner whose face is growing pale 

And I'll show you a young man with many reasons why 

And there but for fortune 

May go you or I 

Show me an alley, show me a train 

Show me a hobo who sleeps out in the rain 

And I'll show you a young man with many reasons why 

And there but for fortune 

May go you or I 

Show me the whiskey stains on the floor 

Show me a drunken man as he stumbles out the door 

And I'll show you a young man with many reasons why 

And there but for fortune 

May go you or I 

Show me the country where the bombs had to fall 

Show me the ruins of the buildings once so tall 

And I'll show you a young land with so many reasons why 

And there but for fortune 

May go you or I -- or I