There But For Fortune

Intro: G Cm G Cm G Cm

G         Cm       G          Cm
Show me a prison, show me a jail,

G         Em              Am    
Show me a prisoner whose face 
       D
has gone pale

Em                                
And I'll show you a young man with
    C            Am
 so many reasons why
    Bm               G            
And there but for fortune, may go 
Am     D
you or I

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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 drunken 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.