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{title: Born to be wild} {artist: Steppenwolf} {time: 4/4} {tempo: 145} {key: E} {meta: author Frans-Willem Post, 2026-05-06} {start_of_part: Intro} [E5] {end_of_part} {start_of_verse: Verse 1} [E5]get your motor runnin', [G/E] [E5]head out on the highway [G/E] [E5]looking for adventure [G/E] in what-[E5]ever comes our way [G/E] {end_of_verse} {start_of_part: Bridge} [G] yeah, [A]darlin', gonna [E]make it happen [G] take the [A]world in a [E]love embrace [G] fire [A]all of your [E]guns at once and [G] ex-[A]plode into [E]space {end_of_part} {start_of_verse: Verse 2} [E5]i like smoke and lightnin', [G/E] [E5]heavy metal thunder [G/E] [E5]racing in the wind [G/E] and the [E5]feeling that i'm under [G/E] {end_of_verse} {start_of_part: Bridge} [G] yeah, [A]darlin', gonna [E]make it happen [G] take the [A]world in a [E]love embrace [G] fire [A]all of your [E]guns at once and [G] ex-[A]plode into [E]space {end_of_part} {start_of_chorus: Chorus 1} like a [E]true nature's child, we were [G]born, born to be wild we can [A]climb so high, [G] I never wanna [E5]die [E]born to be [D]wild [E] [D] [E]born to be [D]wild [E] [D] {end_of_chorus} {start_of_part: Solo} [E5] [G/E] {end_of_part} {start_of_verse: Verse 1} [E5]get your motor runnin', [G/E] [E5]head out on the highway [G/E] [E5]looking for adventure [G/E] in what-[E5]ever comes our way [G/E] {end_of_verse} {start_of_part: Bridge} [G] yeah, [A]darlin', gonna [E]make it happen [G] take the [A]world in a [E]love embrace [G] fire [A]all of your [E]guns at once and [G] ex-[A]plode into [E]space {end_of_part} {chorus: Chorus 2}