Songs about People: Vaughan

The next song about a person is dedicated to former English cricket captain Michael Vaughan, who led the English side to victory in the disastrous 2005 Ashes series. Good on ya, buddy

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(With apologies to Bruce Springsteen)

Vaughan down in a dead man 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 


Vaughan in the USA,
I was Vaughan in the USA 
I was Vaughan in the USA, 
Vaughan in the USA


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

Vaughan in the USA
I was Vaughan in the USA
I was Vaughan in the USA
I was Vaughan in the USA
Vaughan in the USA

Come back home to the refinery 
Hiring man said son if it was up to me 
Went down to see my VA 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 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 

Vaughan in the USA, 
I was Vaughan in the USA 
Vaughan in the USA, 
I'm a long gone daddy in the USA 
Vaughan in the USA, 
Vaughan in the USA 
Vaughan in the USA, 
I'm a cool rocking daddy in the USA