Anyone else think it is weird that "Born in the USA" is the featured video on the United States page?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkpl70Rl5os&eurl=http://www.mahalo.com/United_States
This youtube video is the number one link on the United States page as well as the featured video. Also I don't think the people who made the video have ever listened to the words of the song. I'm not criticizing "Born in the USA," I just don't think this is an appropriate place for the song.
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M$I think there may have been a couple of different stage versions but I'm not sure. I think that the "woman" quote is the 'correct' one.
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@ psionandy Where did you get the lyrics, "He had a little girl in Saigon" from? Your link shows the lyrics as, "He had a woman he loved in Saigon".
I'm not sure why this question has been resurrected after almost six months but I was curious about this quote?
@johngugie
I agree... freedom of speech gives you the right to say why you feel you've been 'abandoned' by your own country and shoddily treated by it. Which is exactly what the song Born in the USA is about.
Its NOT really a patriotic song at all.. But people think it is because they only sing the 4 word chorus. The American National Anthem is about American Pride, Born in the USA is about American Shame.
Great song though... and great lyrics.
You do know the lyrics and not just the chorus right?
---quote---
I had a buddy at Khe Sahn
Fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all gone
He had a little girl in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms
Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years down the road
Nowhere to run, ain't got nowhere to go
I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
----quote----
http://www.brucespringsteen.net/songs/BornInTheUSA.html
"A Birth of a Nation" demonstrates free speech too, that is not a reasonable qualification.
did any of you consider that this song shows freedom of speech, one of the founding amendments of the United States. We have the right to say what we want, which is an American freedom.
I am not saying the song is always inappropriate. I'm just saying it isn't patriotic. It was written as a protest against the Vietnam War, as the lyrics @psionandy posted demonstrate, therefore I don't think its the best song for the USA page.
