Richard Shindell - Born In The U.S.A. lyrics

Born down in a dead man's town
First kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog
That's been beat too much
Spend half your life just coverin' up

I 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

I was born in the US born in the US
Born in the USA

Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man says, "Son, if it was up to me"
I went down to see my VA man
He said, "Son, don't you understand?"

Born in the US born in the US
Born in the USA

I had a brother at Khe Sanh
Fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all gone
He loved a woman back in Saigon
Got a picture of him in her arms

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
Ten years burning down that road
Nowhere to run, ain't got nowhere to go

I was born in the US born in the US
Born in the USA i was born in the US
Born in the US born in the USA