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
born in the usa
i was born in the usa
i was born in the usa
born in the usa
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 usa
i was born in the usa
i was born in the usa
i was born in the usa
come back home to the refinery
hiring man says son if it was up to me
went down to see my va man
he said son don’t you understand
4
i had a brother at khe sanh
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
5
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 usa
i was born in the usa now
born in the usa
i’m a long gone daddy in the usa now
born in the usa
born in the usa
born in the usa
i’m a cool rockin’ daddy in the usa now
Artist: Bruce Springsteen
Year: 1984
Decade: 80s
Language: en
Word Count: 121