Born in the U.S.A. (Electric Nebraska)

One, two, three, four

Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
End up like a dog that's been beat too much
'Til you spend half your life just coverin' up

Born in the USA
Born in the USA
Born in the USA
Born in the USA

Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hands
Sent me off to a foreign land
Said, "Son, go and kill the yellow man"

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

I had a buddy, missed at Khe Sahn
Fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all gone

He had a little girl in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms

Down in the shadows of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years down the road
Nowhere to run, nowhere to go

Born in the USA
I'm a long-gone daddy in the USA
Born in the USA
I'm a cool rockin' daddy in the USA

Born in the USA
Born in the USA