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 usa I was born in the usa I was 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 to go and Kill the yellow man 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 v.a. man He said: "son, don´t you understand now" 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 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.... I´m a cool rocking daddy in the usa.