Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA Lyrics

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

Born in the USA
Born in the USA
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
Go and kill the yellow man

Born in the USA
Born in the USA
Born in the USA
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 now"

Born in the USA
Born in the USA
Born in the USA
Born in the USA

Had a brother at Khe Sahn
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

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years burning down the road
Now here to run ain't got nowhere to go

Born in the USA
I was born in the USA
I was born in the USA
Born in the USA