Born To Run Uke tab by Bruce Springsteen

7 Chords used in the song: E, C, D, G, Am, Dm, F

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Album: 
Year:  1975
Difficulty: 
3.93
(Intermediate)
Key: AmChords
E chordE                                               C chordC            D chordD
In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream
E chordE C chordC D chordD
At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines
C chordC E chordE
Sprung from cages on Highway 9
C chordC D chordD C chordC
chrome wheeled, fuel injected and, steppin' out over the line
G chordG
Baby this town rips the bones from your back,
Am chordAm D chordD
it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap.
C chordC Am chordAm
We gotta get out while I'm still young
C chordC D chordD E chordE
'Cause tramps like us baby we were born to run.


E chordE
Hey Wendy, let me in, I wanna be your friend,
C chordC D chordD
I wanna guard your dreams and visions.
E chordE
Just wrap your legs 'round these velvet rims,
C chordC D chordD
Strap your hands across my engines.
C chordC G chordG
And Together we could break this trap,
C chordC D chordD C chordC
We'll run till we drop and, baby we'll never go back.
G chordG
Walk with me out on the wire?
Am chordAm D chordD
Girl, I'm just a scared and a lonely rider,
C chordC Am chordAm
But I gotta know how it feels,
C chordC
I want to know if love is wild, baby,
D chordD E chordE
I want to know if love is real.

Dm chordDm F chordF
Beyond the palace hemi-powered drones scream down the boulevard
C chordC
The girls comb their hair in rear-view mirrors
Am chordAm D chordD
and the boys try to look so hard
Dm chordDm
The amusement park rises bold and stark
F chordF
Kids are huddled on the beach in a mist
C chordC
I wanna die with you Wendy on the streets tonight
Am chordAm D chordD
In a everlasting kiss


G chordG
Well, The highways jammed with broken heroes
C chordC D chordD
On a last chance power drive
E chordE
Everybody's out on the run tonight
C chordC D chordD
But there's no place left to hide
C chordC E chordE
Together, Wendy, we can live with the sadness
C chordC D chordD C chordC
I'll love you with all the madness in my soul
E chordE Am chordAm
Someday girl, I don't know when, we're gonna get to that place
D chordD
Where we really wanna go
C chordC Am chordAm
And we'll walk in the sun
C chordC
Till then tramps like us
D chordD E chordE
Baby we were Born To Run.

Uke tab by , 23 Dec 2009

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About this song: Born To Run

Born to Run is the signature song of the American singer songwriter Bruce Springsteen, and the title song of his album Born to Run. Written in a small house in Long Branch, New Jersey in early 1974, the song was Bruce Springsteen's last-ditch effort to make it big. The prior year, Springsteen had released two albums to critical acclaim but with little commercial success. The lyrics to the song are appropriately epic for his last-ditch, all-or-nothing shot at the stars, yet they remain rooted in the universal desperation of adolescence: We gotta get out while we're young...

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