How Strange

As most of you know who read this blog, Americans (with the exception of a couple of people) are not my favourites.

I am a fan of a few American performers and Bruce Springsteen is one of them. I always understood his famous song Born In The USA was something like a rallying song for most Americans. Something like John Williamsons Malley Boy is to most Australians.

Recently I read the lyrics to this song and it knocks the American way of life like I can only dream of doing. The lyrics are reproduced below.

Born down in a dead mans 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 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....

Come back home to the refinery

Hiring man said son if it was up to me

Went down to see my v.a. man

He said son, don't you understand

I had a brother at khe sahn

Fighting off the viet cong

They are 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 aint 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.

What do you think?