Born in the U.S.A.

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
 Then you spend half your life tryna cover it all
 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
 I was born in the USA
 Born in the USA
 Born in the USA
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 Come back home to the refinery
 Hiring man says, "Son if it was up to me"
 Went down to see my V.A. man
 He said, "Son don't you understand"
 Had a brother at Khe Sahn fighting off the Viet Cong
 They're still there and he's all gone
 
 He had a woman he loved in Saigon
 I got a picture of him in her arms
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 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 USA
 Born in the USA
 Born in the USA
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 Born in the USA
 Born in the USA
 I was born in the USA
 Born in the USA