[B]　[E]

 

[B]Born down in a dead man's town

The first kick I took was when I hit the ground

You [E]end up like a dog that's been beat too much

Till' you spend half your life just covering up

 

[B]Born in the U.S.A.

I was born in the U.S.A.

I was [E]born in the U.S.A.

I was born in the U.S.A. now

 

[B]Got in a little hometown jam so they put a rifle in my hand

[E]Sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the yellow man

 

[B]Born in the U.S.A.

I was born in the U.S.A.

I was [E]born in the U.S.A.

I was born in the U.S.A.

 

[B]Come back home to the refinery

Hiring man says son if it was up to me

[E]Went down to see my V.A. man

He said "son don't you understand now"

[B]Oh yeah Wow wow [E]Wow wow wow

 

[B]I had a brother at Khe Sahn fighting off the Viet Cong

[E]They're still there he's all gone

[B]He had a woman he loved in Saigon

I got a picture of him in her arms [E]now

 

[B]Down in the shadow of the penitentiary

Out by the gas fires of the refinery

I'm [E]ten years burning down the road

Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go

 

[B]Born in the U.S.A.

I was born in the U.S.A. now

[E]Born in the U.S.A.

I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A. now

[B]Born in the U.S.A.

Born in the U.S.A.

[E]Born in the U.S.A.

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

 

[B]　[E]　[B]　[E]　[B]　[E]　[B]　[E]　[B]　[E]　[B]　[E]