{"id":24597,"date":"2025-06-27T22:22:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T22:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=24597"},"modified":"2025-12-13T22:29:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T22:29:33","slug":"there-but-for-fortune-go-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/there-but-for-fortune-go-i\/","title":{"rendered":"There but for Fortune Go I"},"content":{"rendered":"

Capo 3rd fret<\/span><\/p>\n

[Intro]<\/span>
\n[ C<\/span> Fm<\/span> C<\/span> Fm ]\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

[Verse 1]<\/span>
\n[C] Show me the [Fm] prison.\u00a0 <\/span>[C] Show me the [Fm] jail.<\/span>
\n[C] Show me the [Am] prisoner whose [Dm] life has gone [G] stale.<\/span>
\n[TURNAROUND]
\n<\/span>[C] And I’ll show you a [Am] young man<\/span>
\nWith so [F] many reasons [Dm] why<\/span>
\n[Em] There but for [Am] fortune go [D7] you or [G] I, [G7] mmm [ C\u00a0 Fm\u00a0 C\u00a0 ]\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

[Verse 2]<\/span>
\n[C] Show me the [Fm] alley.\u00a0 <\/span>[C] Show me the [Fm] train.<\/span>
\n[C] Show me the [Am] hobo who [D7] sleeps out in the [G] rain.<\/span>
\n[TURNAROUND]
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

[Verse 3]<\/span>
\n[C] Show me the [Fm] whiskey [C] stains on the [Fm] floor.<\/span>
\n[C] Show me the [Am] drunkard as he [D7] stumbles out the [G] door.<\/span><\/p>\n

[TURNAROUND]
\n<\/span>[D] And I’ll show you a [Bm] young man<\/span>
\nWith so [G] many reasons [Em] why<\/span>
\n[F#m] There but for [Bm] fortune go [E7] you or [A] I, [A7] mmm [ D\u00a0 Gm\u00a0 D\u00a0 Gm ]\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

[Verse 4]<\/span>
\n[C] Show me a [Fm] country where the [C] bombs had to [Fm] fall.<\/span>
\n[C] Show me the [Am] ruins of the [D7] buildings, that once were so [G] tall.<\/span>
\n[TURNAROUND] – –\u00a0<\/span>[C] And I’ll show you a [Am] young man<\/span>
\n[F] With so many reasons [Dm] why<\/span>
\n[Em] There but for [Am] fortune [D7] go you or [G] I, [G7] mmm [ C\u00a0 Fm\u00a0 C\u00a0 Fm ] [C]\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Capo 3rd fret [Intro] [ C Fm C Fm ]\u00a0 [Verse 1] [C] Show me the [Fm] prison.\u00a0 [C] Show me the [Fm] jail. [C] Show me the [Am] prisoner whose [Dm] life has gone [G] stale. [TURNAROUND] [C] And I’ll show you a [Am] young man With so [F] … CLICK TO VIEW SONGThere but for Fortune Go I<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,126,13,173,116,117,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-x-bill-chase","category-joan-baez","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-tenor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27658,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24597\/revisions\/27658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}