Born In The U.S.A.

by Bruce Springsteen
 Born down in a dead mans town
 The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
 You end up like a dog thats been beat too much
 Till you spend half your life just covering up
 Born in the u.s.a., I was born in the u.s.a.
 I was born in the u.s.a., born in the u.s.a.
 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 u.s.a...
 Come back home to the refinery
 Hiring man said son if it was up to me
 Went down to see my v.a. man
 He said son, dont you understand
 I had a brother at khe sahn
 Fighting off the viet cong
 Theyre still there, hes all gone
 He had a woman he loved in saigon
 I got a picture of him in her arms now
 Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
 Out by the gas fires of the refinery
 Im ten years burning down the road
 Nowhere to run aint got nowhere to go
 Born in the u.s.a., I was born in the u.s.a.
 Born in the u.s.a., Im a long gone daddy in the u.s.a.
 Born in the u.s.a., born in the u.s.a.
 Born in the u.s.a., Im a cool rocking daddy in the u.s.a.