[Intro] I'd like to do a song about fate called "There But for Fortune" A song written for me by Miss Joan Baez [Verse 1] Show me a prison, show me a jail Show me a prison man 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 [Verse 2] 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 [Verse 3] 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 [Verse 4] 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