{"id":7176,"date":"2022-01-29T19:51:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T19:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=7176"},"modified":"2025-11-21T06:02:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T06:02:17","slug":"born-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/born-in-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Born in the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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[Verse]\r\n<\/span> \r\nC<\/span>\r\n<\/span>Born down in a dead man's town\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\nThe first kick I took was when I hit the ground\r\n<\/span>F<\/span>\r\n<\/span>End up like a dog that's been beat too much\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\nTill you spend half your life just covering up\r\n<\/span> \r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n<\/span> \r\nC<\/span>\r\n<\/span>Born in the U.S.A., I was born in the U.S.A.\r\n<\/span><\/span>      F<\/span>                                     C<\/span>\r\n<\/span>I was born in the U.S.A., born in the U.S.A. now\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n \r\n[Verse]\r\n<\/span> \r\nC<\/span>\r\n<\/span>Got in a little hometown jam\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\nSo they put a rifle in my hand\r\n<\/span>F<\/span>\r\n<\/span>Sent me off to a foreign land\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\nTo go and kill the yellow man\r\n<\/span> \r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n<\/span> \r\nC<\/span>\r\n<\/span>Born in the U.S.A., I was born in the U.S.A.\r\n<\/span><\/span>      F<\/span>                                     C<\/span>\r\n<\/span>I was born in the U.S.A., born in the U.S.A. now\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n \r\n[Verse]\r\n<\/span> \r\nC<\/span>\r\n<\/span>Come back home to the refinery\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\nHiring man said \"Son if it was up to me\"\r\n<\/span>F<\/span>\r\n<\/span>Went down to see my V.A. man\r\n<\/span><\/span>                                    | C<\/span> | C<\/span> | C<\/span> | C<\/span> | F<\/span> | F<\/span> | F<\/span> | F<\/span> |\r\n<\/span>He said \"Son, don't you understand\"\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n \r\nC<\/span>\r\n<\/span>I had a brother at Khe Sahn\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\nFighting off the Viet Cong\r\n<\/span>F<\/span>\r\n<\/span>They're still there, he's all gone\r\n<\/span><\/span>C<\/span>\r\n<\/span>He had a woman he loved in Saigon\r\n<\/span><\/span>                                       | F<\/span> | F<\/span> | F<\/span> | F<\/span> |\r\n<\/span>I got a picture of him in her arms now\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n \r\nC<\/span>\r\n<\/span>Down in the shadow of the penitentiary\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\nOut by the gas fires of the refinery\r\n<\/span>    F<\/span>\r\n<\/span>I'm ten years burning down the road\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\nNowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go\r\n<\/span> \r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n<\/span> \r\nC<\/span>\r\n<\/span>Born in the U.S.A., I was born in the U.S.A.\r\n<\/span><\/span>F<\/span>                                                      C<\/span>\r\n<\/span>Born in the U.S.A., I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A. now\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\nBorn in the U.S.A., Born in the U.S.A.\r\n<\/span>F<\/span>\r\n<\/span>Born in the U.S.A., I'm a cool rocking Daddy in the U.S.A. now\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n \r\n| C<\/span> | C<\/span> | C<\/span> | C<\/span> | F<\/span> | F<\/span> | F<\/span> | F<\/span> |\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[Verse] C Born down in a dead man’s town The first kick I took was when I hit the ground F End up like a dog that’s been beat too much Till you spend half your life just covering up { CHORUS } C Born in the U.S.A., I was … CLICK TO VIEW SONGBorn in the USA<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,133,126,116,117,115,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-chords","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-tenor","category-patriotic-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}