Born down in a dead mans townThe first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog thats 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 handSent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man
Born in the u.s..a....
Come back home to the refineryHiring man
said son if it was up to me
Went down to see my v.a. man
He said son, dont you understand
I had a brother at khe sahn
Fighting off the viet cong
Theyre still there, hes all gone
He had a woman he loved in saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms
nowDown in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refineryIm ten years burning down the road
Nowhere to run aint got nowhere to go
Born in the u.s.a.,
[ I ]was born in the u.s.a.Born in the u.s.a.,
Im a long gone daddy in the u.s.a.B
orn in the u.s.a., born in the u.s.a.Born in the u.s.a.,
Im a cool rocking daddy in the u.s.a.
"Born in the U.S.A." is a 1984 song written and performed by Bruce Springsteen. Taken from the album of the same name, it is one of his best-known singles. Rolling Stone ranked the song 275th on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In 2001, the RIAA's Songs of the Century placed the song 59th (out of 365). Lyrically, the song deals with the effects of the Vietnam War on Americans although it is widely misinterpreted as a patriotic anthem.
