There But For Fortune Chords
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"There But for Fortune"
Artist: Phil Ochs (later covered and popularized by Joan Baez)
Album: There But for Fortune (Compilation)
Intro: G Cm G Cm G Cm
G Cm G Cm
Show me a prison, show me a jail,
G Em Am D
Show me a prisoner whose face has gone pale
Em C Am
And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why
Bm G Am D
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 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.
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I've no idea if these chords are how this song is played (I've sort of forgotten it's so long since I heard it). However, they sound lovely when it's all put together.I am going to transpose it into C Major as this suits my voice better and I hope it doesn't loose any of the quality of sound by so doing.Thank you for the hard work of writing out and posting.
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pro tip: tune the guitar down one full tone or transpose to -2 and it sounds exactly how phil recorded it,.
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This is excellent - just as I remember Phil's own version. We seem to forget our own "fortune" far too easily today , and how easily it can be taken away. (I ried it in C as well - G seems the more expressive key.
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