Words and Music by John Kay      I was raised in the ruins, mama, 'till I was thirteen   Every day I heard the radio   Every night I had the same old dream   To sing a song, oh, baby, to watch my name in lights   If you wanna see your dream come true   Honeychild, you gotta get right down and fight   Well I sailed cross the ocean, girl, I felt so all alone   Many times I thought about goin' right back home   But the Joy I found in song gave me the will to carry on      Live your life the way you want to   Don't let fools lead you astray   Live you dreams so you hold on to   All you need along the way      I was payin' my dues right here in the land of the free   All the time I learned to sing along   I could not speak and I could barely see   Still all the while I knew where I was at   But the people that believed in me   Lord, I could count them all in seconds flat   Well, someday I would be, I knew it all along   A gentleman of leisure, girl, right or wrong   And though my dream has come and gone   There's plenty more where those came from      Repeat Chorus      © 1977 Rambunctious Music (ASCAP)