This Friday is Independence Day, so I thought a week of songs for America was a good idea. Since I probably wont be writing on Friday, I am going to have four songs.
My first pick is Born in the U.S.A by Bruce Springsteen. Now, this is not, as the title might suggest, a big patriotic song (although Ronald Regan would have had you believe that it was). Rather it is a song of protest about the struggles of the Vietnam Veterans when they came back to America. I choose to put a protest song in this group of four because the ability to write, record and sell songs such as this is what makes America great.
Enjoy!
I cannot find a youtube of this that is embeddable, so here is a link to the video.
As and extra bonus, here is how the Boss is singing this song today!
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