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Balboa Park easy guitar chords by
Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen

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Verse 1
G
D
G

He lay his blanket
C

under
G
C
G

neath the freeway
C
G
C

As the evening sky grew dark
G

Took a sniff of toncho from his coke can
D
G

And headed through Balboa Park
Verse 2
C
G

Where the men in their Mercedes
C
G
C

Come nightly to employ
G

In the cool San Diego evening
D

The services of the border
Interlude 1

boys
G
C
G
D
G


Verse 3
G
C
G

He grew up near the Zona Norte

With the hustlers and smug
C
G
C

glers he hung out with
G

He swallowed their balloons of cocaine
D

And brought 'em across
G

the Twelfth Street strip
Verse 4
G
C
G

Sleeping in a shelter
C
G
C

If the night got too cold
G
C
G
D

Runnin' from the migra
G

Of the border patrol
C
G
C
G
D

Verse 5
G

C
G

Past the salvage yard 'cross
C
G

the train tracks

And in through the storm
C

drain
G

They stretched their blankets out
C
G

'neath the freeway
D
C
G

And each one took a name
Verse 6
G
C
G
C

There was X- man and Cochise
G
C

Little Spider his sneakers covered
G
C

in river mud
G

They come north to California
D

End up with the poison in their blood
G
C
G
C
G
D

Verse 7
G

Em

He did what he had to do
C

for the money
G

Sometimes he sent home
D
C

what he could spare
Em

The rest went to high- top
C

sneakers and toncho
G
D
G

And jeans like the gavachos wear
Verse 8
G

One night the border patrol
C

swept Twelfth Street
G

A big car come fast down
C

the boulevard
G

Spider stood caught in its
C
G

headlights
D
C
G

Got hit and went down hard
Verse 9
C
G

Car sped away Spider held his stomach
C
G

Limped to his blanket
C

'neath the underpass
G

Lie there tasting his own blood
C
G

on his tongue
D

Closed his eyes and listened
C

to the cars rushin' by, so fast
Outro 1
G

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  • Em

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