Born in the USA

I was just sitting here thinking about how when I was little, I would go on long drives with Tiger and Barbara Link (My wonderful Grandparents) and I remember being in the backseat and all of a sudden I would break out into song with Born in the USA. I swear that was the only song that I would sing. To this day they are always talking about how Drea loved that song, I still love that song and now that I am older I totally get the song. Back then, I would just sing it, because it was a great song, but now I sing it, because I am so proud to be an American and I am proud to know that my husband is a protector of our great USA.

Born down in a dead man's townThe first kick I took was when I hit the groundYou end up like a dog that's been beat too muchTill 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 jamSo they put a rifle in my handSent me off to a foreign landTo go and kill the yellow manBorn 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 refineryHiring man says "Son if it was up to me"Went down to see my V.A. manHe said "Son, don't you understand"I had a brother at Khe Sahn fighting off the Viet CongThey're still there, he's all goneHe had a woman he loved in SaigonI got a picture of him in her arms nowDown in the shadow of the penitentiaryOut by the gas fires of the refineryI'm ten years burning down the roadNowhere to run ain't got nowhere to goBorn 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.

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