There But For Fortune

Show me a prison, show me a jail, Show me a prisoner whose face has gone pale And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why 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 dunkin' 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. 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. --- There but for Fortune - Joan Baez