Copyright Generalmusic S.p.a.

Born down in a
dead man's town
the first kick
I took was when
I hit the ground
you end up like a dog
that's 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.
I was
born in the U.S.A.
I was
born in the U.S.A.
I was
born in the U.S.A.
Come back home
to the refinery
hiring man says
son if it was up to me
went down to see
my V.A. man he said
"Son don't you
understand now".
Had a brother
at Khe Sahn
fighting off
the 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 shadow
of the penitentiary
out by the gas fires
of the refinery
I'm ten years burning
down the road
nowhere to run
ain't got nowhere to go.
Born in the U.S.A.
I was
born in the U.S.A.
born in the U.S.A.
I'm 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.
I'm a cool
rocking Daddy
in the U.S.A.

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BORN IN U.S.A.