Coverinfo
Bruce performed the song only once:
2014-05-22 Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
With Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers and Ed Manion. During their performance together at the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh on April 22, Bruce announced that he would join Joe Grushecky at this and the following night's Soldiers & Sailors III shows in Pittsburgh.
Songinfo
"I was born to rock" was taken from the 2013 album 'Somewhere East of Eden'
Other cover versions
Bruce on the artist
Bruce co-wrote some songs with Joe Grushecky
He also contributed to other albums with vocals, guitar, harmonica or mandolin
Bruce contributed on three albums of Joe Grushecky
1995 : AMERICAN BABYLON
2006 : A GOOD LIFE
Is a studio album by Joe Grushecky released on 15 Aug 2006 on Schoolhouse Records. It features Bruce Springsteen on four tracks. He shares vocals and plays guitar with Grushecky on
Code of Silence,
Is she the one and
A Good life, and only plays guitar on
Searching for my soul. The primary recording sessions for the album took place at studios in West Virginia. However Springsteen, with Toby Scott engineering, worked only from his New Jersey home studio and overdubbed onto Gruschecky's already completed basic tracks.
2009 : EAST CARSON STREET
is a studio album by Joe Grushecky released in 2009. Bruce Springsteen participated in the recording of three of the album's tracks; he plays guitar on
East Carson Street, sings duet vocals and plays lead guitar on
Another thin line, and plays lead guitar on
Broken wheel.
Lyrics
Daddy, daddy, I was born to rock
And when I do I really blow my top
From early in the morning all around the clock
I'm shake shake shaking what I got
It feels so good, I don't want to stop
Daddy, daddy, I was born to rock
Whoa!
I tired trading my guitar for a nine to five
But it let me feeling more dead than alive
I got up every morning at the break of day
And I was work work working my life away
Dressed up in a tie and a monkey suit
I couldn't wait for Friday night to cut it loose
Daddy, daddy, I was born to rock
And when I do I really blow my top
From early in the morning all around the clock
I'm shake shake shaking what I got
It feels so good, I don't want to stop
Daddy, daddy, I was born to rock
Whoa!
Whoa!
Why don't you get a real job, my friends all used to say
Instead of just rocking your life away
I plug in my guitar, turn it up to ten
And I come back tomorrow night and do it all again
I tried to quit but I don't know how
Good gosh almighty it's too late now
Daddy, daddy, I was born to rock
And when I do I really blow my top
From early in the morning all around the clock
I'm shake shake shaking what I got
It feels good, I don't want to stop
Daddy, daddy, I was born to rock
It feels good, I don't want to stop
It feels good, I don't want to stop
It feels good, I don't want to stop
It feels good, I don't want to stop
Daddy, daddy, I was born to rock