Bruce Springsteen

Released: November 10, 1998

Songwriter: Bruce Springsteen

Producer: Bruce Springsteen

[Verse]
Born down in a dead man’s town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that’s been beat too much
Till you spend half your life just covering up

[Chorus]
Born in the USA
Born in the USA
Born in the USA
Born in the USA

[Verse]
I got in a little hometown jam
And so they put a rifle in my hands
"Son, you ever heard of Vietnam?
Well, go and kill the yellow man"

[Chorus]
Born in the USA
Born in the USA
Born in the USA
Born in the USA

[Verse]
Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man says “Son, if it was up to me”
I go down to see the V.A. man
He says “Son, don’t you understand?”

[Chorus]
Born in the USA
Born in the USA
Born in the USA
Born in the USA

[Verse]
I had a buddy 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

[Verse]
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, ain’t got nowhere to go

[Outro]
I’m a long gone daddy in the USA
Born in the USA
I’m a cool rocking daddy in the USA
Born in the USA

Bruce Springsteen is a rock ‘n’ roll icon from the great state of New Jersey. Nicknamed “The Boss,” he’s known for spirited sax-powered anthems about working-class people making their way in the world. Backed by the trusty E Street Band, he’s sold more than 120 million records, won numerous awards (including 20 Grammys and an Oscar), sold out stadiums around the globe, and earned a place alongside his teenage heroes in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Although he’s a living legend who ranks among the most important artists in rock history, Springsteen wasn’t an overnight success. Around the time of his first album, 1973’s Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., he was dismissed as just another “new Dylan"—some scruffy folk singer with a decent vocabulary looking to follow in Bob’s footsteps. In the decade that followed, Springsteen proved himself to be much more.

His breakthrough came with his third album, 1975’s Born to Run. The record hit No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and landed the singer-songwriter on the cover of both Time and Newsweek. Bruce nabbed his first chart-topping album five years later with The River, and in 1984, he went global with Born in the U.S.A., a critical and commercial smash that produced seven Top 10 singles.

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