Someone was willing to pay big bucks for an early glimpse of what would become the Boss' "runaway American dream."
According to The Telegraph, a handwritten, working lyric sheet for Bruce Springsteen's 1975 hit "Born to Run" sold at Sotheby's on Thursday for $197,000, well exceeding pre-sale estimates of between $70,000 and $100,000.
The auction house didn't reveal the identity of either the seller or the telephone bidder who bought the document, which used to be in the collection of Springsteen's former manager, Mike Appel.
The title track of Springsteen's 1975 multi-platinum album has revved up generations of fans, from its opening view of "the streets of a runaway American dream" to its high-octane chorus: "tramps like us/baby we were born to run." Some Springsteen aficionados still refer to themselves as "tramps."
Most of the lines in this rough 1974 version, written in Long Branch, New Jersey, are apparently unpublished and unrecorded, but the manuscript does include "a nearly perfected chorus," the auction house said.
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