[00:17.039]Born down in a dead man's town
[00:20.423]The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
[00:24.686]You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
[00:27.863]'Til you spend half your life just coverin' up
[00:33.132]Born in the U.S.A
[00:36.155]I was born in the U.S.A
[00:40.102]I was born in the U.S.A
[00:45.075]Born in the U.S.A
[00:49.024]Got in a little hometown jam
[00:53.094]So they put a rifle in my hand
[00:57.009]Sent me off to a foreign land
[01:00.666]To go and kill the yellow man
[01:04.807]Born in the U.S.A
[01:07.798]I was born in the U.S.A
[01:12.754]I was born in the U.S.A
[01:15.762]I was born in the U.S.A
[01:20.459]Come back home to the refinery
[01:23.454]Hiring man says, "Son if it was up to me"
[01:28.472]Went down to see my V.A. man
[01:31.414]He said, "Son, don't you understand"
[01:51.566]I had a brother at Khe Sanh
[01:55.649]Fighting off the Viet Cong
[01:59.328]They're still there, he's all gone
[02:07.051]He had a woman he loved in Saigon
[02:10.946]I got a picture of him in her arms now
[02:22.560]Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
[02:25.600]Out by the gas fires of the refinery
[02:29.853]I'm ten years burning down the road
[02:34.548]Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go
[02:38.744]Born in the U.S.A
[02:41.753]I was born in the U.S.A. now
[02:46.757]Born in the U.S.A
[02:49.502]I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A. now
[02:54.658]Born in the U.S.A
[02:58.561]Born in the U.S.A
[03:02.385]Born in the U.S.A
[03:05.077]I'm a cool rockin' Daddy in the U.S.A. now