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
Now Born in the USA
I was born in the USA
I was born in the USA
I was born in the USA
Now
Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hands
Send me off to a foreign land to go and kill the yellow man
Now 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 now

Had a brother at Khe Sanh fighting off the Viet cong
They're still there he's all gone
He had a woman that 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 no where to go
Now Born in the USA
I was born in the USA
Now Born in the USA
I was born in the USA
I was born in the USA
Born in the USA
Born in the USA
I'm a cool rockin' daddy in the USA now