“Show me a country where the bombs had to fall
Show me the ruins of buildings so tall”
"There but for Fortune" (1963)
Lyrics
Context: 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.
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Phil Ochs48
American protest singer and songwriter 1940–1976Related quotes
Jim Steinman (1947) American musician
"Faster Than The Speed Of Night" from the Bonnie Tyler album Faster Than The Speed of Night (1983)
Context: Let me show you how to drive me crazy,
Let me show you how to make me feel so good,
Let me show you how to take me to the edge of the stars and back again.
You've gotta show me how to drive you crazy,
You've gotta show me all the things you wanna happen to you,
We've gotta tell each other everything, we always wanted someone to do.
“Show me a prison, show me a jail
Show me a pris'ner whose face has grown pale”
Phil Ochs (1940–1976) American protest singer and songwriter
"There but for Fortune" (1963); Ochs here paraphrases a proverbial expression "There, but for the grace of God, go I", which was itself a paraphrase of John Bradford's expression on seeing other prisoners being led to their execution as heretics to be burned at the stake: There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford. (as quoted in Problems in the Relations of God and Man (1911) by Clement Charles Julian Webb, p. 107)
Lyrics
Context: Show me a prison, show me a jail
Show me a pris'ner whose face has grown pale
And I'll show you a young man
With many reasons why
There but for fortune, go you or I.
Anselm Kiefer (1945) German painter and sculptor
Quoted in Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joshua-schwartz/in-the-beginning-there-was-not_b_1703387.html
Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
Tore Down a la Rimbaud.
Song lyrics, A Sense of Wonder (1985)
Prakash Javadekar (1951) Indian politician
On the allegations that some JNU students shouted anti-national slogans, as quoted in " Slogans at JNU 'trigger' to violence: Javadekar http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/slogans-at-jnu-trigger-to-violence-javadekar-116021701175_1.html", Business Standard (17 February 2016)
Patrick Henry (1736–1799) attorney, planter, politician and Founding Father of the United States
Speech on the Federal Constitution, Virginia Ratifying Convention (5 June 1788).
1780s
“Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me and then show me the place where he was hanged.”
Lawrence Durrell book Justine
Variant: Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged.
Source: Justine