Muchos consideran esta canción como el verdadero himno americano, e incluso políticos como Ronald Reagan la usaron en sus mítines. Ninguno de ellos sabe que el Boss habla sobre las víctimas de la Guerra del Vietnam.
(visto en http://listas.20minutos.es/lista/grandes-canciones-malinterpretadas-y-su-verdadero-significado-96845/)
La de veces que he escuchado esta canción e inmediatamente me entraban ganas de ser de Wisconsin y cantar a pleno pulmón este clásico de The Boss, un casi himno estadounidense que se usa en muchas de sus victorias \"recuerdo al equipo de Baloncesto de EEUU recoger su medalla de Oro en Londres\"12 con Born in the USA de fondo?. Lo que a priori derrocha patriotismo fue concebida como una crítica al Gobierno en relación con la Guerra de Vietnam
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 up
Born in the usa
I was born in the usa
I was born in the usa
Born in the usa
Got in a little hometown jam
So okay put a rifle in my hands
Send me off to a foreign land to go and kill the yellow man
Born in the usa....
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 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 the 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 usa