Is the following verse from a poem or song?

Question

Its something I found, written out in my own hand many years ago; I can;t help wondering if I was quoting something or actually wrote it!

'It seems to go where

Its a fight to survive

Just until tomorrow

A man's place on Earth

I have come to realise

Is decided by birth'.

Answer 1

Not Guilty

Answer 2

A song: Tom Jones: A Boy from Nowhere

Answer 3

I wrote that!