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mk  ·  3365 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The most misread poem in America

Ronald Reagan rocked out Born in the USA during his campaign events.





thenewgreen  ·  3362 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    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 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.

    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 refinery

    Hiring man says "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 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 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.

tacocat  ·  3362 days ago  ·  link  ·  

8 track recorder in a bedroom. Arguably how it should sound

The Nebraska album is awesome but I'm tired of trying to foist Bruce upon Hubski

thenewgreen  ·  3362 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks for that. It's a completely different song

jleopold  ·  3364 days ago  ·  link  ·  

For sophomore English, my younger sister and I had the same teacher. One project the teacher had us do was to take a song about a social issue, and explore the issue through the focus of the song and then present our research. I used Mrs. McGrath to talk about war, which wasn't super exciting. My sister did Born in the USA (I just realized we both did Springsteen songs). I wasn't heavily involved in her research, but I remember her talking about how most people in the US it seemed completely misunderstood the song, but that abroad, it was well received for it's real message. It completely blew my sister's mind that Reagan used it.

user-inactivated  ·  3364 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The classic campaign rally trick of suddenly upping the volume 6x during the chorus was leaned heavily there, I assume.