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* [[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.
* [[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:
* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: The verse about alcoholism in "There but for Fortune" becomes even sadder knowing that Ochs became an alcoholic himself:
{{quote| ''Show me the whiskey stains on the floor<br />
{{quote|''Show me the whiskey stains on the floor
Show me a drunk as he stumbles out the door<br />
Show me a drunk as he stumbles out the door
And I'll show you a young man with many reasons why<br />
And I'll show you a young man with many reasons why
There but for fortune, go you or I.'' }}
There but for fortune, go you or I.'' }}



Revision as of 19:42, 7 August 2014


  • 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:

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.