Balboa Park chords by Bruce Springsteen
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Verse 1
(G major) (D major) (G major) He lay his blanket
(C major) under
neath (G major) the freeway (C major) (G major)
As the (C major) evening sky (G major) grew dark (C major)
Took a sniff (G major) of toncho from his coke can
And headed (D major) through Balboa Park (G major)
Verse 2
Where the (C major) men in their Mer (G major) cedes
Come (C major) nightly (G major) to employ (C major)
In the cool San Diego (G major) evening
The ser (D major) vices of the border
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Interlude 1
boys
(G major) (C major) (G major) (D major) (G major)
Verse 3
He (G major) grew up near (C major) the Zona (G major) Norte
With the hustlers and smug
(C major) glers he (G major) hung out with (C major)
He swallowed their balloon (G major) s of cocaine
And brought 'em across (D major)
the Twelfth Street strip (G major)
Verse 4
Sleep (G major) (C major) ing in a (G major) shelter
If the night (C major) (G major) got too cold (C major)
(G major) Runnin' from the (C major) (G major) (D major) migra
Of the border patrol (G major)
(C major) (G major) (C major) (G major) (D major)
Verse 5
(G major)
Past the salvage (C major) yard (G major) 'cross
the train (C major) tracks (G major)
And in through the storm
drain (C major)
They stretched their blankets out (G major)
'neath the free (C major) way (G major)
And (D major) each one took a name (C major) (G major)
Verse 6
There was (G major) X- man (C major) (G major) and Cochise (C major)
(G major) Little Spider his sneakers (C major) covered
in (G major) river mud (C major)
They come (G major) north to California
End up with the (D major) poison in their blood
(G major) (C major) (G major) (C major) (G major) (D major)
Verse 7
(G major)
He did (E minor) what he had to do
for the money (C major)
Sometimes he sen (G major) t home
what (D major) he could spare (C major)
The (E minor) rest went to high- top
sneakers (C major) and toncho
And jeans (G major) like the ga (D major) vachos wear (G major)
Verse 8
One (G major) night the border patrol
swept Twelfth Street (C major)
(G major) A big car come fast down
the boulevard (C major)
Spider (G major) stood caught in its
headlights (C major) (G major)
Got (D major) hit and went down hard (C major) (G major)
Verse 9
Car sped (C major) away (G major) Spider held his stomach
(C major) (G major) Limped to his blanket
'neath the underpass (C major)
Lie there (G major) tasting his own blood
on his (C major) tongue (G major)
Closed his eyes (D major) and listened
to the cars rushin' (C major) by, so fast
Outro 1
(G major)
Balboa Park
Bruce Springsteen
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