I Got To Be Me

Lyrics: Walter Marks
Music: Walter Marks

Sung by Patti Cathcart on Matt Kelly's album album A Wing And A Prayer. It is credited on the album to Sammy Davis Jr, who recorded it in 1968, but it appears the author was Walter Marks for the musical Golden Rainbow.

Whether I'm right or whether I'm wrong
Whether there's a place for me in this world or I never belong
I got to be me, I got to be me
What else can I be but what I am

I want to live, not merely survive
And I won't give up this dream of life that keeps me alive
I got to be me, I got to be me
The dream that I see makes me what I am

That far away prize, a world of success
Is waiting for me if I heed the call
I won't settle down, won't settle for less
As long as there's a chance that I can have it all

I'll go it alone, that's how it must be
I can't be right for somebody else if I'm not right for me
I got to be free, I've got to be free
Daring to try, to do it or die, I've got to be me

I'll go it alone, that's how it must be
I can't be right for somebody else if I'm not right for me
I got to be free, I've got to be free
Daring to try, to do it or die, I've got to be me