Born in the U.S.A. Album Lyrics

Born In The U.S.A.
  • 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
  • Born in the USA
  • I was born in the USA
  • I was born in the USA
  • Born in the USA
  • 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
  • Born in the USA
  • I was born in the USA
  • I was born in the USA
  • I was born in the USA
  • Born in the USA
  • Come back home to the refinery
  • Hiring 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"
  • Had a brother at Khe Sahn fighting off the 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
  • Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
  • Out by the gas fires of the refinery
  • I'm ten years burning down the road
  • Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go
  • Born in the USA
  • I was born in the USA
  • Born in the USA
  • I'm a long gone Daddy in the USA
  • Born in the USA
  • Born in the USA
  • Born in the USA
  • I'm a cool rocking Daddy in the USA
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Cover Me
  • The times are tough now
  • Just getting tougher
  • This old world is rough
  • It's just getting rougher
  • Cover me
  • Come on baby cover me
  • Well I'm looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me
  • Promise me baby you won't let them find us
  • Hold me in your arms
  • Let's let our love blind us
  • Cover me
  • Shut the door and cover me
  • Well I'm looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me
  • Outside's the rain, the driving snow
  • I can hear the wild wind blowing
  • Turn on the light
  • Bolt the door
  • I ain't going out there no more
  • This whole world is out there just trying to score
  • I've seen enough I don't want to see any more
  • Cover me
  • Come on and cover me
  • I'm looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me
  • Looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me
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Darlington County
  • Driving in to Darlington County
  • Me and Wayne on the Fourth of July
  • Driving in to Darlington County
  • Looking for some work on the county line
  • We drove down from New York City where the girls are pretty but they just want to know your name
  • Driving in to Darlington City
  • Got a union connection with an uncle of Wayne's
  • We drove eight-hundred miles without seeing a cop
  • We got rock and roll music blasting off the t-top singing
  • Sha la la
  • Sha la la la
  • Sha la la la la la la
  • Sha la la
  • Sha la la la
  • Sha la la la la la la
  • Hey little girl standing on the corner
  • Today's your lucky day for sure all right
  • Me and my buddy we're from New York City
  • We got $200, we want to rock all night
  • Girl, you're looking at two big spenders
  • Why the world don't know what me and Wayne might do
  • Our pa's each own one of the World Trade Centers
  • For a kiss and a smile I'll give mine all to you
  • Come on baby take a seat on my fender
  • It's a long night and tell me what else were you gonna do
  • Just me and you, we could sha la la
  • Little girl sitting in the window
  • Ain't seen my buddy in seven days
  • County man tells me the same thing
  • He don't work and he don't get paid
  • Little girl you're so young and pretty
  • Walk with me and you can have your way
  • And we'll leave this Darlington City for a ride down that Dixie Highway
  • Driving out of Darlington County
  • My eyes seen the glory of the coming of the Lord
  • Driving out of Darlington County seen Wayne handcuffed to the bumper of a state trooper's Ford
  • Sha la la
  • Sha la la la
  • Sha la la la la la la
  • Sha la la
  • Sha la la la
  • Sha la la la la la la
  • Sha la la
  • Sha la la la
  • Sha la la la la la la
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Working On The Highway
  • Friday night's pay night guys fresh out of work
  • talking about the weekend, scrubbing off the dirt
  • Some heading home to their families, some looking to get hurt
  • Some going down to Stovell wearing trouble on their shirts
  • I work for the county out on 95
  • All day I hold a red flag and watch the traffic pass me by
  • In my head I keep a picture of a pretty little miss
  • Someday Mister I'm gonna lead a better life than this
  • Working on the highway laying down the blacktop
  • Working on the highway all day long I don't stop
  • Working on the highway blasting through the bedrock
  • Working on the highway
  • Working on the highway
  • I met her at a dance down at the union hall
  • She was standing with her brothers, back up against the wall
  • Sometimes we'd go walking down the union tracks
  • One day I looked straight at her and she looked straight back
  • So I'm working on the highway laying down the blacktop
  • Working on the highway all day long I don't stop
  • Working on the highway blasting through the bedrock
  • Working on the highway
  • Working on the highway
  • I saved up my money and I put it all away
  • I went to see her daddy but we didn't have much to say
  • "Son, can't you see that she's just a little girl she don't know nothing about this cruel, cruel world"
  • We lit out down to Florida, we got along all right
  • One day her brothers came and got her and they took me in a black and white
  • The prosecutor kept the promise that he made on that day
  • And the judge got mad and he put me straight away
  • I wake up every morning to the work bell clang
  • Me and the warden go swinging on the Charlotte County road gang
  • I'm working on the highway laying down the blacktop
  • Working down the highway all day long I don't stop
  • Working on the highway blasting through the bedrock
  • Working on the highway
  • Working on the highway
  • Working on the highway laying down the blacktop
  • Working on the highway all day long I don't stop
  • Working on the highway blasting through the bedrock
  • Working on the highway
  • Working on the highway
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Downbound Train
  • I had a job, I had a girl
  • I had something going mister in this world
  • I got laid off down at the lumber yard
  • Our love went bad, times got hard
  • Now I work down at the carwash, where all it ever does is rain
  • Don't you feel like you're a rider on a downbound train
  • She just said "Joe I gotta go, we had it once we ain't got it anymore"
  • She packed her bags left me behind
  • She bought a ticket on the Central Line
  • Nights as I sleep, I hear that whistle whining
  • I feel her kiss in the misty rain
  • And I feel like I'm a rider on a downbound train
  • Last night I heard your voice
  • You were crying, crying
  • You were so alone
  • You said your love had never died
  • You were waiting for me at home
  • Put on my jacket, I ran through the woods
  • I ran till I thought my chest would explode
  • There in the clearing, beyond the highway, in the moonlight, our wedding house shone
  • I rushed through the yard
  • I burst through the front door
  • My head pounding hard
  • Up the stairs I climbed, the room was dark, our bed was empty
  • Then I heard that long whistle whine and I dropped to my knees, hung my head and cried
  • Now I swing a sledge hammer on a railroad gang knocking down them cross ties ; working in the rain
  • Now don't it feel like you're a rider on a downbound train
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I'm On Fire
  • Hey little girl is your daddy home
  • Did he go away and leave you all alone
  • I got a bad desire
  • I'm on fire
  • Tell me now baby is he good to you
  • Can do to you the things that I do
  • I can take you higher
  • I'm on fire
  • Sometimes it's like, someone took a knife baby edgy and dull and cut a six-inch valley through the middle of my soul
  • At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet and a freight train running through the middle of my head
  • Only you can cool my desire
  • I'm on fire
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No Surrender
  • We busted out of class had to get away from those fools
  • We learned more from a three minute record than we ever learned in school
  • Tonight I hear the neighborhood drummer sound
  • I can feel my heart begin to pound you say you're tired and you just want to close your eyes and follow your dreams down
  • We made a promise we swore we'd always remember no retreat no surrender
  • Like soldiers in the winter's night with a vow to defend, no retreat no surrender
  • Now young faces grow sad and old and hearts of fire grow cold, we swore blood brothers against the wind. I'm ready to grow young again and hear your sister's voice calling us home across the open yards well maybe we could cut someplace of our own with these drums and these guitars
  • We made a promise we swore we'd always remember
  • no retreat, no surrender
  • Blood brothers in the stormy night with a vow to defend no retreat no surrender
  • Now on the street tonight the lights grow dim the walls of my room are closing in
  • There's a war outside still raging
  • You say it ain't ours anymore to win
  • I want to sleep beneath peaceful skies in my lover's bed with a wide open country in my eyes and these romantic dreams in my head
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Bobby Jean
  • Well I came by your house the other day
  • Your mother said you went away
  • She said there was nothing that I could have done
  • There was nothing nobody could say
  • Me and you we've known each other ever since we were sixteen
  • I wished I would have known
  • I wished I could have called you
  • Just to say goodbye Bobby Jean
  • Now you hung with me when all the others turned away, turned up their nose
  • We liked the same music, we liked the same bands, we liked the same clothes
  • We told each other that we were the wildest
  • The wildest things we'd ever seen
  • Now I wished you would have told me
  • I wished I could have talked to you
  • Just to say goodbye Bobby Jean
  • Now we went walking in the rain talking about the pain that from the world we hid
  • Now there ain't nobody, nowhere nohow gonna ever understand me the way you did
  • Maybe you'll be out there on that road somewhere, in some bus or train traveling along, in some motel room there'll be a radio playing and you'll hear me sing this song
  • Well, if you do, you'll know I'm thinking of you and all the miles in between and
  • I'm just calling one last time
  • Not to change your mind, but just to say I miss you baby, good luck, goodbye Bobby Jean
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I'm Goin' Down
  • We sit in the car outside your house
  • I can feel the heat coming 'round
  • I go to put my arm around you and you
  • give me a look like I'm way out of bounds, you let out one of your bored sighs
  • Well lately, when I look into your eyes I'm goin' down
  • We get dressed up and we go out baby for the night
  • We come home early burning, burning, burning in some fire fight
  • I'm sick and tired of your setting me up, setting me up just to knock-a, knock-a, knock-a me down
  • I pull you close but when we kiss I can feel a doubt
  • I remember back when we started, my kisses used to turn you inside out
  • I used to drive you to work in the morning
  • Friday night I'd drive you all around
  • You used to love to drive me wild
  • But lately girl you get your kicks from just driving me down
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Glory Days
  • I had a friend was a big baseball player back in high school
  • He could throw that speedball by you
  • Make you look like a fool boy
  • Saw him the other night at this roadside bar I was walking in and he was walking out
  • We went back inside sat down, had a few drinks but all he kept talking about was
  • Glory days well they'll pass you by
  • Glory days in the wink of a young girl's eye
  • Glory days, glory days
  • There's a girl that lives up the block back in school she could turn all the boys' heads
  • Sometimes on a Friday I'll stop by and have a few drinks after she put her kids to bed
  • Her and her husband Bobby well they split up
  • I guess it's two years gone by now
  • We just sit around talking about the old times, she says when she feels like crying she starts laughing thinking about
  • Glory days well they'll pass you by
  • Glory days in the wink of a young girl's eye
  • Glory days, glory days
  • Think I'm going down to the well tonight and I'm going to drink till I get my fill
  • And I hope when I get old I don't sit around thinking about it but I probably will
  • Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of, but time slips away and leaves you with nothing mister but boring stories of glory days
  • Glory days well they'll pass you by
  • Glory days in the wink of a young girl's eye
  • Glory days, glory days
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Dancing In The Dark
  • I get up in the evening
  • And I ain't got nothing to say
  • I come home in the morning
  • I go to bed feeling the same way
  • I ain't nothing but tired
  • Man, I'm just tired and bored with myself
  • Hey there baby I could use just a little help
  • You can't start a fire
  • You can't start a fire without a spark
  • This gun's for hire
  • Even if we're just dancing in the dark
  • Message keeps getting clearer
  • Radio's on and I'm moving 'round the place
  • I check my look in the mirror
  • I wanna change my clothes, my hair, my face
  • Man, I ain't getting nowhere just living in a dump like this
  • There's something happening somewhere
  • Baby I just know that there is
  • You can't start a fire
  • You can't start a fire without a spark
  • This gun's for hire
  • Even if we're just dancing in the dark
  • You sit around getting older
  • There's a joke here somewhere and it's on me
  • I'll shake this world off my shoulders
  • Come on baby the laugh's on me
  • Stay on the streets of this town
  • And they'll be carving you up all right
  • They say you gotta stay hungry
  • Hey baby I'm just about starving tonight
  • I'm dying for some action
  • I'm sick of sitting 'round here trying to write this book
  • I need a love reaction
  • Come on now baby gimme just one look
  • You can't start a fire sitting 'round crying over a broken heart
  • This gun's for hire
  • Even if we're just dancing in the dark
  • You can't start a fire worrying about your little world falling apart
  • This gun's for hire
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My Hometown
  • I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand
  • into the busstop
  • to pick up a paper for my old man
  • I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick and steer as we drove through town
  • He'd tousle my hair and say son take a good look around this is your hometown
  • This is your hometown
  • This is your hometown
  • This is your hometown
  • In '65 tension was running high, at my high-school
  • There was a lot of fights between the black and white
  • There was nothing you could do
  • Two cars at a light on a Saturday night, in the back seat there was a gun
  • Words were passed, in a shotgun blast
  • Troubled times had come, to my hometown
  • My hometown
  • My hometown
  • My hometown
  • Now Main Street's white washed windows
  • and vacant stores
  • seems like there ain't nobody
  • wants to come down here no more
  • They're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks
  • Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain't coming back to your hometown
  • Your hometown
  • Your hometown
  • Your hometown
  • Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out
  • Packing up our bags maybe heading south
  • I'm 35, we got a boy of our own now
  • Last night I sat him up, behind the wheel and said son take a good look around, this is your hometown
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Born in the U.S.A. Album Tracks

Lyrics
Disc
Track
Title
1
1
Born In The U.S.A.
1
2
Cover Me
1
3
Darlington County
1
4
Working On The Highway
1
5
Downbound Train
1
6
I'm On Fire
1
7
No Surrender
1
8
Bobby Jean
1
9
I'm Goin' Down
1
10
Glory Days
1
11
Dancing In The Dark
1
12
My Hometown
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