Intro

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B (2)

  Born down in a dead man's town

B (2)

  The first kick I took was when I hit the ground

E (2)

  End up like a dog that's been beat too much

E (2)

  'Til you spend half your life just to cover it up, now

 

B (2)

  Born in the U.S.A. I was

B (2)

  Born in the U.S.A. I was

E (2)

  Born in the U.S.A.

E (2)

  Born in the U.S.A.

 

B (2)

  Got in a little hometown jam

B (2)

  So they put a rifle in my hands

E (2)

  Sent me off to a foreign land

E (2)

  To go and kill the yellow man

 

B (2)

  Born in the U.S.A. I was

B (2)

  Born in the U.S.A. I was

E (2)

  Born in the U.S.A.

E (2)

  Born in the U.S.A.

 

B (2)

  Come back home to the refinery

B (2)

  Hiring man said "son if it was up to me"

E (2)

  Went down to see my V.A. man

E (2)

  He said "son, don't you understand"

 

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| E - - - | - - - - | (2)

 

B (2)

  I had a brother at Khe Sanh

B (2)

  Fighting off the Viet Cong

E (2)

  They're still there, he's all gone

 

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B (2)

  He had a woman he loved in Saigon

B (2)

  I got a picture of him in her arms now

 

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B (2)

  Down in the shadow of the penitentiary

B (2)

  Out by the gas fires of the refinery

E (2)

  I'm ten years burning down the road

E (2)

  Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go

 

B (2)

  Born in the U.S.A. I was

B (2)

  Born in the U.S.A.

E (2)

  Born in the U.S.A.

E (2)

  I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A.

 

B (2)

  Born in the U.S.A.

B (2)

  Born in the U.S.A.

E (2)

  Born in the U.S.A.

E (2)

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

 

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Repeat as many times as you like, end on B