
Balboa Park
Bruce Springsteen
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[Intro]
D C G C G C G
He lay his blanket underneath the freeway
C G C
As the evening sky grew dark
G C G
Took a sniff of toncho from his coke can
D C
And headed through Balboa Park
G C G
Where the men in Mercedes
C G C
Come nightly to employ
G C G
In the cool San Diego evening
D C G C G D C G
The services of the border boys
C G C
He grew up near the zona norte
G C G C
With the hustlers and smugglers he hung out with
G C G
He swallowed their balloons of cocaine
D C
Brought 'em cross the 12th street strip
G C G
Sleeping in a shelter
C G C
If the night got too cold
G C G
Runnin' from the migra
D C G C G D C G
Of the border patrol
C G C G
Past the Salvage yard 'cross the train tracks
C G C
And in through the storm drain
G C G
They stretched their blankets out neath the freeway
D C
And each one took a name
C G
There was x-man and cochese
C G C
Little spider his sneakers covered in river mud
C G
They come north to California
D C G C G D C
End up with the poison in their blood
Em7 G
He did what he had to do for money
D C
Sometimes he sent home what he could spare
Em7 C
The rest went to hi-top sneakers and toncho
G D G
And jeans like the gavatchos wear
C G C G
One night the border patrol swept 12th street
C G C
A big car come fast down the boulevard
G C G
Spider stood caught in it's headlights
D C
Got hit and went down hard
C G C G
As the car sped away spider held his stomach
C G C
Limped to his blanket 'neath the underpass
G C G
Lie there tasting his own blood on his tongue
D
Closed his eyes and listened to the cars
C G C G
Rushin by so fast
( C G D Em7 )
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