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 till
You spend half your
life just covering 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 that put a rifle
In my hand~~
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 say 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 sahn~
Fighting off
the viet cong~~
There'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
No here 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.
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.~~