Random Talk

[killamajig]

My neighbor decided to have patriotic music blaring as he did his fireworks show. Star-Spangled banner, amazing Grace and a bunch of dumb country songs with guys singing about how much they love America and pickup trucks. And of course he makes the mistake a lot of Americans do and put Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA in the mix. If you're unfamiliar with the song here's the lyrics

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 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., 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 U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I was 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, now?"
I had a brother at Khe Sanh
Fighting off all 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 U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A., now
Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a long gone daddy in the U.S.A., now
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., now

Even funnier the dad and his kids would all sing and shout while waving their arms around the "Born in the USA" chorus line every time it came up. 

I had to resist the urge to print out the lyrics to hand out to his kids so they could sing the whole song. I'd really like to see them sing the part about "killing the yellow man"