Balboa Park

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He lay his blanket underneath the 
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freeway
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As the evening sky grew dark
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Took a sniff of toncho from his 
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coke can
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And headed through Balboa Park
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Where the men in Mercedes
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Come nightly to employ
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In the cool San Diego evening
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The services of the border boys
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He grew up near the zona norte
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With the hustlers and smugglers he
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 hung out with
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He swallowed their balloons of 
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cocaine
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Brought 'em cross the 12th street 
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strip
Continúa después del anuncio
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Sleeping in a shelter
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If the night got too cold
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Runnin' from the migra
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Of the border patrol
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Past the Salvage yard 'cross the 
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train tracks
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And in through the storm drain
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They stretched their blankets out 
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neath the freeway
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And each one took a name
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There was x-man and cochese
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Little spider his sneakers covered
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 in river mud
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They come north to California
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End up with the poison in their 
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blood

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He did what he had to do for money
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Sometimes he sent home what he 
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could spare
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The rest went to hi-top sneakers and
 toncho
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And jeans like the gavatchos wear
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One night the border patrol swept 
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12th street
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A big car come fast down the 
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boulevard
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Spider stood caught in it's 
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headlights
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Got hit and went down hard
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As the car sped away spider held 
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his stomach
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Limped to his blanket 'neath the 
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underpass
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Lie there tasting his own blood on
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 his tongue
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Closed his eyes and listened to the 
cars
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Rushin by so fast

( C  G  D  Em7 )