Phil Ochs/YMMV

"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."
 * Anvilicious: Ochs deliberately wrote in that style; he defined protest songs as "a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit."
 * Covered Up: Joan Baez's cover of Ochs' song, "There but for Fortune", became much more successful than the original. Ochs sometimes jokingly introduced the song as written by Baez.
 * Harsher in Hindsight: The verse about alcoholism in "There but for Fortune" becomes even sadder knowing that Ochs became an alcoholic himself: