Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the gournd
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
Till you spend half your life just covering up

 [bad word] Born in the U.S.A.
I was bor in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.

 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

 [bad word]  [bad word] 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 aarms now

 Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years burniing down the road
Nowhere [bad word] ain't got nowhere to go

 [bad word] 
 I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a cool rocking Daddy in the U.S.A.