Born In The U.s.a. Lyrics - Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band

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 

Till you spend half your life just covering 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 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. 

Come back home to the refinery 

Hiring 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 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 

Nowhere 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. 

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.