Born in the USA

[Intro]
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[Verse]
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Born down in a dead man's town

The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
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End up like a dog that's been beat too much

Till you spend half your life just covering up


[Chorus]
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Born in the U.S.A., I was born in the U.S.A.
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I was born in the U.S.A., born in the U.S.A. now


[Verse]
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Got in a little hometown jam

So they put a rifle in my hand
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Sent me off to a foreign land

To go and kill the yellow man


[Chorus]
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Born in the U.S.A., I was born in the U.S.A.
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I was born in the U.S.A., born in the U.S.A. now


[Verse]
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Come back home to the refinery

Hiring man said "Son if it was up to me"
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Went down to see my V.A. man
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He said "Son, don't you understand"


[Verse]
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I had a brother at Khe Sahn

Fighting off the Viet Cong
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They're still there, he's all gone
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He had a woman he loved in Saigon
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I got a picture of him in her arms now


[Verse]
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Down in the shadow of the penitentiary

Out by the gas fires of the refinery
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I'm ten years burning down the road

Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go


[Chorus]
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Born in the U.S.A., I was born in the U.S.A.
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Born in the U.S.A., I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A. now


[Chorus]

Born in the U.S.A., Born in the U.S.A.
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Born in the U.S.A., I'm a cool rocking Daddy in the U.S.A. now


[Outro]
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