There But For Fortune (hi & lo) Harmonica Tabs

By: Phil Ochs
Joan Baez
Key: G

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Show me the pris-on, show me a jail

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5 5 5 -5 5 -4
Show me the pris-on-er

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whose life has grown stale

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And I’ll show you a young man

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With so man-y reas-ons why

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And there but for for-tune,

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go you or I Mm hm

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 so many reasons why
There but for fortune,
go you or go I

Show me the whiskey stains on the floor
Show me a drunk as he stumbles out the door
And I’ll show you a young man
With many reasons why
There but for fortune, go you or I

Show me a country where the bombs had to fall
Show me the ruins of buildings so tall
And I’ll show you a young land
With many reasons why
There but for fortune, go you or I
You or I