• gibmiser@lemmy.world
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    Born down in a dead man’s town The first kick I took was when I hit the ground End up like a dog that’s been beat too much 'Til you spend half your life just to cover it up now

    Born in the USA I was born in the USA I was born in the USA Born in the USA, now

    Got in a little hometown jam So they put a rifle in my hands Send me off to a foreign land To go and kill the yellow man

    Born in the USA I was born in the USA Born in the USA I was 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?” Oh, yeah No, no No, no, no

    I had a brother at Khe Sanh Fightin’ off them 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 burnin’ down the road Nowhere to run, ain’t got nowhere to go

    Born in the USA I was born in the USA, oh Born in the USA I’m a long-gone daddy in the USA, now

    Born in the USA Born in the USA Born in the USA I’m a cool rocking daddy in the USA, now

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    Party I was at was trumpers and this irony is delicious.

    America playlist going most of night. They turned off hendrixs star spangled banner at woodstock. Little too experimental for em, little too on the nose.

    Explaining to a 70 year old it was a protest song, hearing them just grumble under their breath is a new July 4th favorite memory for me. Like dude you were alive then how are you not aware.

    After that it was ford truck month country.

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      They engaged in mass murder; most knew/know post-Vietnam War history (or should know it before joining); and many voted for Trump, and/or Dubya Bush.