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Song title:      Born To Be Wild
Original Album:	 Steppenwolf

Words and Music by Mars Bonfire
Copyright © 1968 Dunhill / RCA Records
Published by Sony Music Publishing

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


INTRO:

[play: Guitar Figure 1]  [x4]

Guitar Figure 1
  E5                                                E6      E7
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-9-----------9---9-----------9---|-----9-------9-------------------|
|-9-----------9---9-----------9---|-----9-------9---11------12------|
|-7-----------7---7-----------7---|-----7-------7---7-------7-------|
|-0-----------0---0-----------0---|-----0-------0---0---0---0---0---|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |


VERSE1:
Notes:
Guitar Figure 1 is played in the verses.

Chords:
E5  0799xx
E6  07 11 xxx
E7  07 12 xxx

[Guitar Figure 1]             [Guitar Figure 1] 
E5                   | E6 E7 | E5                    | E6 E7 |
Get your motor runnin',        head out on the highway

[Guitar Figure 1]              [Guitar Figure 1] 
E5                  | E6 E7 |   E5               | E6 E7 |
Lookin' for adventure    in whatever comes our way


CHORUS:
Chords:
G  355433
A  577655
E  x79997

G       A             E
  Yeah, darlin' gonna make it happen
G          A          E
  Take the world in a love embrace
G    A          E                G  A         E
Fire all of the guns at once and explode into space


VERSE2:
Notes:
Guitar Figure 1 is played in the verses.

Chords:
E5  0799xx
E6  07 11 xxx
E7  07 12 xxx

[Guitar Figure 1]                  [Guitar Figure 1] 
E5                        | E6 E7 | E5                 | E6 E7 |
I like smoke and lightnin',         heavy metal thunder

[Guitar Figure 1]                   [Guitar Figure 1] 
E5                      | E6 E7    | E5                    | E6 E7 |
Wrestlin' with the wind      and the feelin' that I'm under


[repeat CHORUS]


BRIDGE:
Chords:
E  x79997    D  x57775
G  355433    Db x46664
A  577655

       E                            G
Like a true nature's child, we were born, born to be wild
         A              G             E
We could climb so high, I never wanna die

E          D   Db   D 
Born to be wi__ild,
E          D   Db   D 
Born to be wi__ild,


[repeat VERSE1]


[repeat CHORUS]


[repeat BRIDGE]

[end on D]