There But For Lyrics

There But For lyrics

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