Shadows in the Wasteland

Original

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 covering up.

Now, born in the USA, I was born in the USA,

I was born in the USA, born in the USA. Now, got in a little hometown jam.

So they put a rifle in my hands. Send me off to a foreign land.

To go and kill the yellow man.

Born in the USA, I was born in the USA,

I was born in the USA, I was born in the USA.

Come back home to the refinery. Hiring man said son if it was up to me.

Went down to see my V. A. man. He said, "Son, don't you understand? "

Now. Oh yeah.

Oh no.

No, no, no.

I had a brother,

I can't saw.

Fighting off down with Viet Cong.

They're still there, he's all gone.

He had a woman he loved inside War.

I got a picture of her in an album.

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary.

Out by the gas fires of the refinery. I'm ten years burning down the road.

Knowing I ain't got nowhere to go.

Born in the USA, I was born in the USA.

Now, born in the USA,

I'm a long gone daddy out the USA.

Now, born in the USA, born in the USA, born in the USA. I'm a cool rocking daddy out the USA.

Now.

Oh yeah.

Oh no, no. Oh no. Oh no, no. Oh! Oh no, no.

Woo!

Oh, oh, oh, oh.