Born in the U.S.A

Born down in a dead man's town
The first thing I did 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

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 hotel jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
And sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man

I was 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
Hirin' 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 Sanh
Fightin' on my Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all gone
He had a woman he loved in Saigon
I got a picture of them in our arms

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the campfires at the refinery
I'm ten years burnin' down the road
Nowhere to run and I got nowhere to go

Born in the U.S.A
I was born in the U.S.A
I was 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 rockin' daddy in the U.S.A