Born in the USA

Bruce Springsteen
Born in the USA

Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
End up like a dog that's been beat too much
'Til you spend half your life just covering up now

Born in the USA...I was born in the USA
I was born in the USA...born in the USA...now

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 men

Born in the USA...I was born in the USA
Born in the USA...I was born in the USA

Comeback home to the refinery
Hiring man said, "Son, if it was up to me."
Went down to see my VA man
He said, "Son, don't you understand?"

I had a brother at Khe Sahn
Fighting off the Vietcong
They're still here...he's all gone

He had a woman he loved in Saigon
I had a picture of him in her arms now

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm 10 years burning down the road
Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go

Born in the USA...I was born in the USA...now
Born in the USA...I'm a long gone daddy in the USA now
Born in the USA...born in the USA
Born in the USA...I'm a cool rockin' daddy in the USA now