Amanda Shires & Jason Isbell 'Born in the USA'

From the album, Dead Man's Town: A Tribute to Born in the USA, on Lightning Rod Records. In stores September 16, 2014

[FlamethrowersAgainstSnowflakes]

This sounds like Bruce's original demo!

[thomasgooden]

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.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 handSent me off to a foreign land go and kill the yellow manI was Born in the U.S.A.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"Had a brother at Khe Sahn fighting off the Viet CongThey're still there and he's all goneHe had a woman he loved in SaigonI got a picture of him in her armsShadow of 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.Born in the U.S.A.Born in the U.S.A.I was Born in the U.S.A.Born in the U.S.A.