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Phil Ochs (early 1960's)
There But For Fortune
"Show me an alley, show me a train,
show me a homeless man 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 a prison, show me a jail,
show me a prisoner whose face is growing pale
and I'll show you a young man
with so many reasons why
there but for fortune may go you or I
Show me a country where the bombs had to fall
show me the ruins of buildings once so tall
and I'll show you a young land
with many reasons why
there but for fortune may go you or I
even I
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I'm not sure of the artists and I am too short on time to look up the lyrics now. Here are the songs: They are all Country songs.
Don't Laugh At Me. (I think this song should be played over the loudspeaker every morning in every school.)
Outside Looking In.
We Shall Be Free.
(I believe Garth Brooks sings this one.)
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Okay, so work can wait a little bit longer. ;)
Artist: Mark Wills
Album: Wish You Were Here
Title: Don't Laugh At Me
(allen shamblin/steve seskin)
I'm a little boy with glasses
The one they call the geek
A little girl who never smiles
'cause i've got braces on my teeth
And i know how it feels
To cry myself to sleep
I'm that kid on every playground
Who's always chosen last
A single teenage mother
Tryin' to overcome my past
You don't have to be my friend
But is it too much to ask
Don't laugh at me
Don't call me names
Don't get your pleasure from my pain
In god's eyes we're all the same
Someday we'll all have perfect wings
Don't laugh at me
I'm the cripple on the corner
You've passed me on the street
And i wouldn't be out here beggin'
If i had enough to eat
And don't think i don't notice
That our eyes never meet
I lost my wife and little boy when
Someone cross that yellow line
The day we laid them in the ground
Is the day i lost my mind
And right now i'm down to holdin'
This little cardboard sign...so
Don't laugh at me
Don't call me names
Don't get your pleasure from my pain
In god's eyes we're all the same
Someday we'll all have perfect wings
Don't laugh at me
I'm fat, i'm thin, i'm short, i'm tall
I'm deaf, i'm blind, hey, aren't we all
Don't laugh at me
Don't call me names
Don't get your pleasure from my pain
In god's eyes we're all the same
Someday we'll all have perfect wings
Don't laugh at me
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Artist: GARTH BROOKS
Album: Double Live
Title: We Shall Be Free
This ain't comin'
From no prophet
Just an ordinary man
When I close my eyes
I see the way
This world shall be
When we all walk
Hand in hand
When the last child
Cries for a crust of bread
When the last man dies
For just words that he said
When there's shelter
Over the poorest head
We shall be free
When the last thing
We notice is
The colour of skin
And the first thing
We look for is
The beauty within
When the skies and
The oceans are clean again
Then we shall be free
We shall be free
We shall be free
Stand straight,
Walk proud
'Cause we shall be free
When we're free to
Love anyone we chooseWhen this world's big enough
For all different views
When we all can worship
From our own kind of pew
Then we shall be free
We shall be free
We shall be free
Have a little faith
Hold out
'Cause we shall be free
And when money talks
For the very last time
And nobody walks
A step behind
When there's only one race
And that's mankind
Then we shall be free
We shall be free
We shall be free
Stand straight,
Walk proud,
Have a little faith,
Hold out
We shall be free
We shall be free
We shall be free
Stand straight,
Have a little faith
We shall be free