Lyrics to
Find My Fortune

This version of Find My Fortune was released by Reo Speedwagon in 1973.

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Backwoods killer from a river town
A mixed up kid that let his hair hang down
High school rebel, he’s always been bad
And his poor old man’s still wond’ring ’bout the lad
But he’s gone, gone away to find his fortune.
There’s a long-haired lady lookin’ for a home
With her young son, he’d left them both alone
And his black-haired lover’s got a broken heart
‘Cause her lonely boy just won’t play the part
‘Cause he’s gone, gone away to find his fortune.

And it’s been a long, long way
From that little town to L.A.
And I can’t turn around
Ladies, I’m gone, gone away to find my fortune.

A restless nature fed my crazy dreams
So I packed my bags in a big limousine
laughed at the people who were laughin’ at me
Laughed and said I’m gonna be what I be
And I’m gone, gone away to find my fortune.

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Reo Speedwagon has released many songs over the years besides Find My Fortune. Reo Speedwagon released songs from 1971 to 2007 spanning across albums like REO Speedwagon, R.E.O / T.W.O., Ridin' The Storm Out, Lost In A Dream, This Time We Mean It, R.E.O., You Can Tune A Piano, But You Can't Tuna Fish, Nine Lives, Hi Infidelity, Good Trouble, Wheels Are Turnin', Life As We Know It, The Earth, A Small Man, His Dog And A Chicken, Building The Bridge, and Find Your Own Way Home. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Reo Speedwagon.

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The lyrics for Find My Fortune are defined as the words making up the song released by Reo Speedwagon in 1973. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Find My Fortune have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Reo Speedwagon and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Find My Fortune by Reo Speedwagon if you think through it. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Find My Fortune" means the words set to the music of Find My Fortune, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Reo Speedwagon. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Find My Fortune and the lyrics to Find My Fortune are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Reo Speedwagon who came here looking just for the lyrics to Find My Fortune, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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