Ronald Reagan's Erstwhile Campaign Anthem, Denatured:

Lyrics:

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
'Til you spend half your life just covering up.

I got in a little hometown jam,
And so they put a rifle in my hands.
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man.

Come back home to the refinery,
Hiring man says "Son if it was up to me.."
I went down to see the V.A. man,
He said "Son don't you understand."

I had a brother at Khe Sahn
Fighting off the Viet Cong.
They're still there, he's all gone.
He had a woman 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 burning down the road.
Nowhere to run, ain't got nowhere to go..



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