【歌詞翻訳・意味解説】Bruce Springsteen/ブルース・スプリングスティーン Born In The U.S.A./ボーン・イン・ザ・USA(アメリカに生まれた)【歌詞翻訳・意味解説】

アメリカを代表するロックン・ローラー、シンガーソングライター。
通称は「ボス（Boss）」。

1984年リリースのアルバム『ボーン・イン・ザ・U.S.A.』のタイトル曲。
ベトナム帰還兵の苦悩を題材にした大ヒット・ナンバー。

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 Sanh
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.