Born down in a dead man 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…
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,
don’t you understand
I 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 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,
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
