Born In The USA
Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took is when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog who's been beat too much
Till you spend half your life just coverin' up
Born in the USA
I was born in the USA
I was born in the USA
Born in the USA
Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man
Born in the USA
I was born in the USA
I was born in the USA
I was born in the USA
Born in the USA
Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man says, "Son, if it was up to me!"
Went down to see my VA man
He said, "Son, you don't understand!"
I had a brother at Khe Sahn
Fightin' off them Viet Cong
They're still there
He's all gone
He had a woman he loved in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms now
Down in the shadows of the penitentary
Out by the gasfires of the refinery
I'm ten years burnin' down the road
Nowhere to run, ain't got nowhere to go
Born in the USA
I was born in the USA
Born in the USA
I"m a long gone daddy in the USA
Born in the USA
Born in the USA
Born in the USA
I'm a cool rockin' daddy in the USA