Born In the U.S.A.

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 to cover it up, now

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., now

Got in a little hometown jam

So they put a rifle in my hands

Send 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.

Born in the U.S.A.

I was 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, now?"

I had a brother at Khe Sanh

Fighting off all 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., now

Born in the U.S.A.

I'm a long gone daddy in the U.S.A., now

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., now