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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 upBorn in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
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 U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
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 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 U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I’m a long gone daddy in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I’m a cool rocking daddy in the U.S.A.

(paradise by the sea)

Well there’s sparklin’ angels on your fire-escape tonight
They line them up for you trying to keep you safe
But with them fire alley burglars on a midnight vamp
You lost your heart on main street to a beautiful tramp
That’s all right, I don’t mind
`cause I got (you got) a love so fine
A love so fine, me and my baby
A love so fine, me and my baby
A love so fine

The rat’s traps are filled with soul crusaders
Everybody’s popping and hopping and jumping
At little melvin and the invaders
You’re out on the floor and you can’t get up
Your baby’s out there dancing and struttin’ that continental strut
She looks so good, she looks so fine (she blows your mind)
Oh we (you) got a love so fine
A love so fine
A love so fine
A love so fine

Everybody’s reeling when the band hits the ceiling
Don’t you know you just wanna go
The boys start (joint gets) rockin’, your knees start knockin’
Everybody party, go
Let’s go

The bar’s closed down (it’s 3 o’clock and the bar’s closed)
You walk to the shady side of town all alone (well you walk along with your)
Papa’s screaming at you, he wants some cash (baby to the dirty side of town)
Mama’s chewing you (me) off about hanging out with (alley) trash
That’s all right, oh you don’t mind
’cause you’ve got a love so fine, oh me and my baby
A love so fine
A love so fine
A love so fine

It’s cloudy out in pittsburgh
It’s rainin’ in saigon
Snow’s fallin’ all across the michigan line
Well she sits by the light of her christmas tree
With the radio softly on
Thinkin’ how a good man is so hard to find

Well once she had a fella
Once she was somebody’s girl
And she gave all she had that one last time
Now there’s a little girl asleep in the back room
She’s gonna have to tell about the meanness in this world
And how a good man is so hard to find

Well there’s pictures on the table by her bed
Him in his dress greens and her in her wedding white
She remembers how the world was the day he left
And now how that world is dead
And a good man is so hard to find

She got no time now for casanovas
Yeah those days are gone
She don’t want that anymore, she’s made up her mind
Just somebody to hold her
As the night gets on
When a good man is so hard to find

Well she shuts off the tv
And without a word
Into bed she climbs
Well she thinks how it was all so wasted
And how expendable their dreams all were
When a good man was so hard to find
Well it’s cloudy out in pittsburgh