C G F C G D Bb F Am Em Dm Am C F C G C What happened to the kid in the Fbaseball Ccap? Well he?s trying to get home but I Gthink he lost the Cmap What happened to the kid with the Fbraces on his Cteeth? He had an autographed picture of MuGhammad CAli He?s just a Fwise-assed, buck-toothed, Bbnear-sighted fool F Always Cstaring at the girls in the Gswimming Cpool FThirty years later and he?s Bbstaring again F He?s Csearching for the place where the Gdreams beCgin Searching for the Amplace where the dream beDmgins Then he bought a bunch of records and he Fheard a man Csing He said if I could write a song I beGlieve I?d be a Cking But it took him twenty years unFtil he got the Cnerve He?s got boxes full of papers and Gpapers full of Cwords And the Fwords fly away like Bbswallows on the Fwind But they Cnever flew back to the Gnest aCgain Never took him to the Amplace where the dream beDmgins CFCGC Then he finally got married and he Fhad two little Cgirls But he didn?t see ?em much cause he Ghad to see the Cworld And the lie that he told ?em is I?m Flike most Cmen It?s always down the road that the Gdream beCgins And the Fgirls grew up to be Bbpretty and wise F They said ?you Ccould have seen the dream by Glooking in our Ceyes FYou were always living in the Bbworld of pretend F You kept Crunning away from Fwhere the dream Cbegins Running aAmway from where the dream beDmgins" C Now he?s living with a woman out on FBorderland CRoad But her love?s turned bitter, and her Geyes turned Ccold She said we came to the desert, let the Fsickness Cmend But Hell ain?t the place where the Gdreams beCgin FLook out boys I?m Bbgaining on you F He?s old CBlind Joe Death in his Galligator Cshoes He?s got a Fpocket full of pills and a Bbpint of sloe gin F He?s gonna Cshow you to the place where the Gdream beCgins Follow him Amdown where the dream beDmgins CFCGC At the end of the road there ain?t Fnothing but Cfear Just a big old room with a Gbig old Cmirror And the man in the mirror his Fhair?s turning Cgray And his hands begin to shake in a Gfunny kind of Cway He?s knows Feverything you bring for to Bbsave you soul F CEverything denied will conGdemn you to the Chole With his Fhand on his heart he Bbpicks up his pen F He goes Csearching for the place where the Gdream beCgins Looking for the Amplace where the dream beDmgins C What happened to the kid in the Fbaseball Ccap? He?s trying to get home but I Gthink he?s lost the Cmap. CFCGC