Born To Be Wild
Steppenwolf
- [Intro] (riff here, can also riff during end of each verse line)
+ Intro + Bass:
- [E] [E]
+ [Em] [Em]
Verse 1:
- [E] Get your motor running... head out on the highway
+ [Em] Get your motor running... head out on the highway
Lookin’ for adventure... in whatever comes our way
|Chorus:
|[G] Yeah [A] darlin’ gonna [E7] make it happen
|[G] Take the [A] world in a [E7] love embrace
|[G] Fire [A ] all of the [E7] guns at once and
|[G] Ex[A]plode into [E7] space
Verse 2:
- [E] I like smoke and lightning... heavy metal thunder
+ [Em] I like smoke and lightning... heavy metal thunder
Wrestlin’ with the wind... and the feeling that I’m under
|Chorus:
|[G] Yeah [A] darlin’ gonna [E7] make it happen
|[G] Take the [A] world in a [E7] love embrace
|[G] Fire [A] all of the [E7] guns at once and
|[G] Ex[A]plode into [E7] space
Bridge:
Like a [E7] true nature’s child
We were [G] born, born to be wild
We could [A] climb so high
- [G] I never wanna [E7] die...
+ [G] I never wanna [Em] die...
[E7*] Born to be [D*] wild [E7] [D]
[E7*] Born to be [D*] wild [E7] [D]
Verse 3:
- [E] Get your motor running... head out on the highway
+ [Em] Get your motor running... head out on the highway
Lookin’ for adventure... in whatever comes our way
|Chorus:
|[G] Yeah [A] darlin’ gonna [E7] make it happen
|[G] Take the [A] world in a [E7] love embrace
|[G] Fire [A] all of the [E7] guns at once and
|[G] Ex[A]plode into [E7] space
Bridge:
Like a [E7] true nature’s child
We were [G] born, born to be wild
We could [A] climb so high
- [G] I never wanna [E7] die...
+ [G] I never wanna [Em] die...
- [Outro] (start quiet, single strums then, gradually getting louder and faster til end on theE)
- [E7*] Born to be [D*] wild [E7*] [D*]
+ [E7*] Born to be [D*] wild [E7] [D]
- [E7*] Born to be [D*] wild [E7*] [D*]
+ [E7*] Born to be [D*] wild [E7] [D]
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- [E7] Born to be [D] wild [E7] [D] [x4 ]
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Outro:
- [E*]
+ [Em*]