Born in the U.S.A.
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Darlington CountyBruce Springsteen
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I’m on FireBruce Springsteen
- #7No Surrender
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- #8Bobby Jean
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I’m Goin’ DownBruce Springsteen
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Glory DaysBruce Springsteen
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Dancing in the DarkBruce Springsteen
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My HometownBruce Springsteen
Born in the U.S.A. by Bruce Springsteen
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Bruce SpringsteenAbout
One of Springsteen’s most iconic songs, “Born in the U.S.A.” is about the troubled return home of a Vietnam veteran. It’s original working title was “Vietnam Blues”.
On January 3, 1982, Bruce recorded the demos that would become the Nebraska album. Born In the U.S.A. was downbeat and somber – a str...
Born in the U.S.A. Lyrics
[Verse 1]
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, now
[Chorus]
Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A. now
[Verse 2]
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
[Chorus]
Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
[Verse 3]
Come back home to the refinery
Hirin' man says, “Son, if it was up to me”
Went down to see my V.A. man
He said, “Son, don't you understand,” now
[Interlude]
Oh yeah
No, no
No, no, no
[Verse 4]
I had a brother at Khe Sanh
Fightin' off them Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all gone
He had a woman he loved in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms, now
[Verse 5]
Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years burnin' down the road
Nowhere to run, ain't got nowhere to go
[Chorus]
Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A. now
Born in the U.S.A
I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A. now
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
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I'm a cool rocking Daddy in the U.S.A. now
Born in the U.S.A. Q&A
Who wrote Born in the U.S.A.'s ?
Born in the U.S.A. was written by Bruce Springsteen.
Who produced Born in the U.S.A.'s ?
Born in the U.S.A. was produced by Bruce Springsteen & Jon Landau & Chuck Plotkin & Little Steven.
When did Bruce Springsteen release Born in the U.S.A.?
Bruce Springsteen released Born in the U.S.A. on Mon Jun 04 1984.
Did Springsteen authorize the use of this song for Reagan's campaign theme song?
No.
From Rolling Stone:
A Reagan advisor asked if they could use the song in the president’s reelection campaign, and Springsteen said no. Even so, Reagan referenced the musician in a stump speech: “America’s future rests in a thousand dreams inside our hearts. It rests in the message of hope in th...
Who wrote the song?
Bruce Springsteen wrote this song as well as essentially all of the songs in his catalog. From his debut album Greetings from Asbury Park in 1973, he was the sole writer on every song released for twenty years; it wasn’t until Human Touch in 1992 that he even had a cowriter. From there, it was anoth...
What did Bruce Springsteen say about "Born in the U.S.A."?
In discussing the song himself, Springsteen doesn’t mention Vietnam, despite the song being about a veteran of that war:
It’s about a working-class man in the midst of a spiritual crisis, in which man is left lost…It’s like he has nothing left to tie him into society anymore. He’s isolated from the...