Born To Be Wild Chords

KeyE CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays515

Born To Be Wild by The Cult is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords E, G, A, D and C#. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			 Intro: E


 E                    G A
Get your motor runnin'
 E                     G A
Head out on the highway
 E                   G A
Lookin' for adventure
 E                       G A
In whatever comes our way

 G     A               E
Yeah, God I'm gonna' make it happen
 G         A         E
Take the world in a love embrace
 G    A           E
Fire all of your guns at once and
 G     A           E
And Explode into space

  E                       G A
I like smoke and lightning
  E                 G A
Heavy metal thunder
  E                  G A
Racin' with the wind
  E                           G A
And the feeling that I'm under

 G     A               E
Yeah, God I'm gonna' make it happen
 G         A         E
Take the world in a love embrace
 G    A           E
Fire all of your guns at once and
 G     A           E
And Explode into space


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


 E          D C# D    E  D  C#  D
Born to be wild
 E          D C# D    E  D  C#  D
Born to be wild


 E                    G A
Get your motor runnin'
 E                     G A
Head out on the highway
 E                   G A
Lookin' for adventure
 E                       G A
In whatever comes our way

 G     A               E
Yeah, God I'm gonna' make it happen
 G         A         E
Take the world in a love embrace
 G    A           E
Fire all of your guns at once and
 G     A           E
And Explode into space

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


 E          D C# D    E  D  C#  D
Born to be wild
 E          D C# D    E  D  C#  D
Born to be wild



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Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante