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    • 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.

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