[00:17.70]Born down in a dead man's town
[00:21.07]The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
[00:25.26]You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
[00:28.62]Til you spend half your life just covering up
[00:33.79]Born in the U.S.A.
[00:37.04]Born in the U.S.A.
[00:41.16]Born in the U.S.A.
[00:45.87]Born in the U.S.A.
[00:49.76]Got in a little hometown jam
[00:53.61]So they put a rifle in my hand
[00:57.62]Sent me off to a foreign land
[01:01.43]To go and kill the yellow man
[01:05.52]Born in the U.S.A.
[01:08.99]I was born in the U.S.A.
[01:13.44]I was born in the U.S.A.
[01:16.82]I was born in the U.S.A.
[01:21.20]Come back home to the refinery
[01:24.23]Hiring man says "Son if it was up to me""
[01:29.29]Went down to see my V.A. man
[01:32.61]He said "Son, don't you understand""
[01:52.47]I had a brother at Khe Sahn fighting off the Viet Cong
[02:00.38]They're still there, he's all gone
[02:07.99]He had a woman he loved in Saigon
[02:11.92]I got a picture of him in her arms now
[02:23.46]Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
[02:26.96]Out by the gas fires of the refinery
[02:30.03]I'm ten years burning down the road
[02:35.45]Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go
[02:39.78]Born in the U.S.A.
[02:42.75]I was born in the U.S.A.
[02:47.75]Born in the U.S.A.
[02:50.52]I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A.
[02:55.67]Born in the U.S.A.
[02:59.83]Born in the U.S.A.
[03:03.55]Born in the U.S.A.
[03:06.63]I'm a cool rocking Daddy in the U.S.A.