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  1. Où Va La Chance (There But For Fortune)

From the recording Seeds, Volume 2 (Live)

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Où Va La Chance (There But For Fortune)

Julia Othmer
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There But For Fortune [Où Va La Chance]
Written by Phil Ochs
Translated & Adapted into French by Eddie Marnay
Performed by Julia Othmer
Mixed & Mastered by James T Lundie

Lyrics

Je vois le prison, Je vois la nuit
Je vois le prisonnier qui pleure sa vie
Et quel que fois je pense - Quand je m'endors dans tes bras
Ou va la chance, a toi? a moi?

Je vois des blessures, Jamais gueries
Je vois le vagabond quit dort sous la pluie
Et quel que fois je pense - Quand je m'endors dans tes bras
Ou va la chance, a toi? a moi?

Je vois un homme Au coeur perdu
Qui boit pour ne plus voir Ce qu'il est devenu
Et quel que fois je pense - Quand je m'endors dans tes bras
Ou va la chance, a toi? a moi?

Je vois des villes Don't les maisons
Un jour sous la guerre Ont croule sans raison
Et quel que fois je pense - Quand je m'endors dans tes bras
Ou va la chance, a toi? a moi?

In English :
Show me a prison, show me a jail,
Show me a prisoner whose face has gone pale
And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why
And there but for fortune, may go you or I

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

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

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

© Julia Othmer 2022.

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