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
'Til you spend half your life
just coverin' 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.
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.
Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Come back home
to the refinery
Hirin' man says
Son if it was up to me
Went down
to see my VA man
He said son
You don't understand now
I had a brother
at Khe Sahn
Fightin' 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 burnin'
down the road
Nowhere to run
I 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 rockin' daddy
in the U.S.A. now