[00:17.632]Born down in a dead man's town[00:20.837]The first kick I took was when I hit the ground[00:25.019]Y’end up like a dog that's been beat too much[00:28.380]Till you spend half your life just covering up now[00:33.537]Born in the U.S.A[00:36.948]I was born in the U.S.A[00:40.798]I was born in the U.S.A[00:45.571]Born in the U.S.A now[00:49.583]Got in a little hometown jam[00:53.669]So they put a rifle in my hand[00:57.650]Sent me off to a foreign land[01:01.584]To go and kill the yellow man[01:05.533]Born in the U.S.A[01:08.983]I was born in the U.S.A[01:12.667]I was born in the U.S.A[01:16.591]I was born in the U.S.A[01:21.476]Come back home to the refinery[01:24.305]Hiring man says son if it was up to me[01:29.371]Went down to see my VA man[01:33.040]He said son don't you understand now[01:52.750]I had a brother at Khe Sanh fighting off the Viet Cong[02:00.728]They're still there he's all gone[02:08.288]He had a woman he loved in Saigon[02:12.260]I got a picture of him in her arms now[02:24.161]Down in the shadow of the penitentiary[02:27.225]Out by the gas fires of the refinery[02:32.076]I'm ten years burning down the road[02:36.129]Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go[02:40.256]Born in the U.S.A[02:43.508]I was born in the U.S.A[02:47.007]Born in the U.S.A[02:51.589]I'm a long gone daddy in the U.S.A now[02:57.194]Born in the U.S.A[03:00.488]Born in the U.S.A[03:04.211]Born in the U.S.A[03:08.055]I'm a cool rocking daddy in the U.S.A now