![]() The chorus of “Born to Run” in the working draft. The working draft of “Born to Run” includes many passages that were changed or excised from the final lyrics, but the chorus “tramps like us, baby we were born to run” is already in place. After a transient childhood, Whitman worked as a journeyman printer before becoming the “Good Gray Poet” Springsteen’s mother famously took out a loan to buy him a guitar when he turned sixteen, and years of honing his musical craft at small venues for low pay preceded the breakthrough of “The Boss.” Rice Bruce Springsteen, on the cover of the album Born to Run, 1975, by Eric Meola.īoth Whitman and Springsteen felt and expressed a deep connection with working-class Americans. Walt Whitman, 1869, from the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, box III-6C (Saunders 29), by M. ![]() While at the Rubenstein, Springsteen’s draft, owned by Floyd Bradley, will be in the very good company of one of the largest collections of manuscripts by another favorite son of New Jersey, Walt Whitman, in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana. ![]() ![]() You may have heard the news: a working draft of one of the iconic songs in American music, Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run,” will be displayed in Perkins Library on May 8-11, and then here in the Rubenstein Library from May 12-June 27. ![]()
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