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

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

Till you spend half your life just to cover it up

Born in the U.S.A.

Born in the U.S.A.

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 hands

Sent me off to a foreign land

Said, "Son, go and kill the yellow man"

Born in the U.S.A.

I was born in the U.S.A.

Born in the U.S.A.

Born in the U.S.A., yeah

Come back home to the refinery

Hiring man says, "Son, if it was up to me"

I went down to see my V.A. man

He said, "Son, don't you understand?"

Born in the U.S.A.

Born in the U.S.A.

Born in the U.S.A.

Born in the U.S.A.

I had a brother 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 shadow 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 U.S.A.

I'm a long-gone daddy in the U.S.A.

Born in the U.S.A.

I'm a cool rockin' daddy in the U.S.A.

Born in the U.S.A.

Born in the U.S.A.