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Phil Ochs
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Joan Baez
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Show me a prison, show me a jail
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Show me a prisoner whose face is growing pale
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And I'll show you a young man with many reasons why
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And there but for fortune
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May go you or I
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Show me an alley, show me a train
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Show me a hobo who sleeps out in the rain
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And I'll show you a young man with many reasons why
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And there but for fortune
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May go you or I
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Show me the whiskey stains on the floor
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Show me a drunken man as he stumbles out the door
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And I'll show you a young man with many reasons why
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And there but for fortune
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May go you or I
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Show me the country where the bombs had to fall
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Show me the ruins of the buildings once so tall
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And I'll show you a young land with so many reasons why
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And there but for fortune
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May go you or I -- or I
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Phil Ochs There But For
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