…in the desert, raised in a lion’s den
my number-one occupation: stealing women from their men
They say you’re born in sin – Blaze of Glory, Bon Jovi
…about three of the clock in the afternoon, with a white head and something a round belly. (Falstaff, Henry IV part II)
…to speak all mirth and no matter. (Beatrice, Much Ado About Nothing)
…free as Caesar; so were you… (Cassius, Julius Caesar)
…so high, / Our aery buildeth in the cedar’s top, / And dallies with the wind and scorns the sun. (Richard III)
And of course…
“The time is out of joint; O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!”
(Hamlet)
Shakespeare search engines gooood… 
…my Papa’s son - ZZ Top
(while pinching my tongue) “on an apple ship”
I thought it was (while pinching your tongue) “on a pirate ship”?
…in a Petrie dish, in Labratory, Pennsylvania. --Dr. Science (anyone else remember that show?)
…long ago. I am the chosen, I’m the one. --Lenny the Village Idiot
…to make you happy. --Randy Newman
…to be my baby,
Baby, I was made to be your man. --J. B. Jovi
…a coal miner’s daughter
Or the SNL verision with Gilda Radner in India …a cow minder’s daughter
I wasn’t born, so much as I fell out
…the nurses all gathered 'round
They gazed in wide wonder
At the joy they had found
The head nurse spoke up
Said “Leave this one alone.”
She could tell right away
I was bad to the bone.
–George Thoroughgood
. . .yesterday.
Born, not asked. Laurie Anderson (?)
“I was born in the back of a wooden radio
The humming of the tubes taught me how to purr
I’d listen to the DJ and dreamed that I could be one
While Momma licked my fur…”
– “I wanna be a DJ on the radio,” Ren of Ren & Stimpy
[Chrome Spot, great post!]
Oops, was referring to your first post about the Grateful Dead… :>
. . . . on the fourth of July! (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
- I can’t believe no-one got that one yet. It took a Brit to tell you!
I’m not sure if this was the same one that El Elvis was thinking.
… the son of a lawless man
Always spoke my mind with a gun in my hand
Lived nine lives
Gunned down ten
Gonna ride like the wind - Christopher Cross
I wasn’t born so much as I fell out - The Clash
I was saying “Let me out here”
Before I was even born
It`s such a gamble when you get a face
Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Blank Generation
Top that for obscurity.
…right here, november '43
my dad was a captain in the army
fighting the germans in sicily
-randy neman, land of dreams
He was born in Oklahoma
His wife’s name is Betty Jo Thelma Liz.
He’s not responsible for what he’s doing;
His mother made him what he is.
Close enough?
… to lose (Jerry Lee Lewis- who did the original version?)
… to do dishes (The Queers)
… to run (Bruce Springsteen)
… to be bad (The Runaways/ Joan Jett)
… blind (Sonny Boy Williamson)