[Verse]

B

Born down in a dead man's town

The first kick I took was when I hit the ground

E

End up like a dog that's been beat too much

Till you spend half your life just covering up

[Chorus]

B

Born in the U.S.A., I was born in the U.S.A.

E B

I was born in the U.S.A., born in the U.S.A. now

[Verse]

B

Got in a little hometown jam

So they put a rifle in my hand

E

Sent me off to a foreign land

To go and kill the yellow man

[Chorus]

B

Born in the U.S.A., I was born in the U.S.A.

E B

I was born in the U.S.A., born in the U.S.A. now

[Verse]

B

Come back home to the refinery

Hiring man said "Son if it was up to me"

E

Went down to see my V.A. man

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He said "Son, don't you understand"

B

I had a brother at Khe Sahn

Fighting off the Viet Cong

E

They're still there, he's all gone

B

He had a woman he loved in Saigon

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I got a picture of him in her arms now

B

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary

Out by the gas fires of the refinery

E

I'm ten years burning down the road

Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go

[Chorus]

B

Born in the U.S.A., I was born in the U.S.A.

E B

Born in the U.S.A., I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A. now

Born in the U.S.A., Born in the U.S.A.

E

Born in the U.S.A., I'm a cool rocking Daddy in the U.S.A. now