| G | Am | |
| Some people born in old Ken | tuckey |
| C | D | G | |
| Think they're | living in a | tunnel mine of | coal |
| G | Am | |
| Other people born not quite so | lucky |
| C | D | G | |
| They're doing | everything by | selling out their | soul |
| G | Am | |
| I believe that everybody was born for | something^? |
| C | D | G | |
| Just to | feed them and | keep them from the | cold |
| G | Am | |
| Sometimes you get to do the things your | meant to |
| C | D | G | |
| And I | know that I was | born to rock n | roll |
| D | G | D | G | |
| Born to rock n | roll satify your | soul gonna rock n | roll satisfy your |
| soul |
| D | G | D | G | |
| Gonna rock n | roll satisfy your | soul gonna rock n | roll satisy your | soul |
| D | G | |
| Gonna rock n | roll satisfy your | soul |
| G | Am | C | D | |
| Always wanted to be a | fireman just to | steer the hook and | ladder from |
| G | |
| be | hind |
| G | Am | |
| Then I thought I'd be a great | inventor |
| C | D | G | |
| But I | found it might be to | hard on my | mind |
| Am | |
| I know that everybody's born for | something |
| C | D | G | |
| Just to | feed them it's all in the | cards you | hold |
| Am | C | D | G | |
| I believe in | magic and I bel | ieve that I was | born to rock n | roll |
| G | |
| Born to rock n roll satify your soul gonna rock n roll satisfy your |
| soul |
| D | G | D | G | |
| Gonna rock n | roll satisfy your | soul gonna rock n | roll satisy your | soul |
| D | G | |
| Gonna rock n | roll satisfy your | soul |
| Copyright @ 1973 Patian/Blackwood Music(BMI) |
| From the "The Byrds" LP Asylum Records 1973 |