Originally in B, I play in G
Vox are almost all on the 5
Intro
| G | G | C | C |
| G |
| Born down in a dead man’s town |
| G | |
| The f | irst kick I took was when I hit the ground |
| C |
| End up like a dog that’s been beat too much |
| C | |
| Till you spend | half your life just-a covering up, now |
| G |
| Born in the U.S.A., I was born in the U.S.A. |
| C | |
| I was | born in the U.S.A., born in the U.S.A. now |
| G |
| Got in a little hometown jam |
| G |
| So they put a rifle in my hands |
| C |
| Sent me off to a foreign land |
| C |
| To go and kill the yellow man |
| G |
| Born in the U.S.A., I was born in the U.S.A., now |
| C |
| Born in the U.S.A., I was born in the U.S.A. |
| G |
| Come back home to the refinery |
| G | |
| Hiring m | an said “son if it was up to me” |
| C |
| Went down to see my V.A. man |
| C | |
| He said | “son, don’t you understand now” |
| G | G | C | C |
| G |
| I had a brother at Khe Sahn |
| G |
| Fighting off the Viet Cong |
| C |
| They’re still there, he’s all gone |
| C |
| G |
| He had a woman he loved in Saigon |
| G |
| I got a picture of him in her arms now |
| C |
| C |
| G |
| Down in the shadow of the penitentiary |
| G | |
| Out by the | gas fires of the refinery |
| C | |
| I’m | ten years burning down the road |
| C |
| Nowhere to run ain’t got nowhere to go |
| G |
| Born in the U.S.A., I was born in the U.S.A. now |
| C |
| Born in the U.S.A., I’m a long gone daddy in the U.S.A. now |
| G |
| Born in the U.S.A., born in the U.S.A. |
| C |
| Born in the U.S.A., I’m a cool rockin’ daddy in the U.S.A. now |
| G | G | C | C |
| G |