Born in Puerto Rico (demo) chords by José Feliciano, Paul Simon
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I was born in Puerto Rico
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We came here when I was a child
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Before I made to my sixteenth
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I was running with the gang
and we were wild.
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Verse 2
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He keeps looking but don't recognize me.
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Some guy from Lexington
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or Park
Rrd beans and rice from
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kitchen windows
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It's supper- time and
the barrio is dark.
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Verse 3
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No one knows you like I do
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No one can know your heart
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the way I do
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No one can testify to all that
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you've been though
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But I will.
Verse 4
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I was born in Puerto Rico
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And my blood is taino
Spanish Caribbean in my soul
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We came here wearing summer
clothes in winter
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Hearts of sunshine in the cold.
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Interlude 1
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Your family ren
Verse 5
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ted this apartment
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You'd watch the street lamps
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from your perch
In the sacramental house your
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stepfather in black
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Preached the fire of
the pentecostal church.
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Verse 6
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No one knows you like I do
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Nobody can know
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your heart the way i do
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No one can testify to all that
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you've been through
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But this will.
Verse 7
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I was born in Puerto Rico
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Came here when I was a child.
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Small change and sunlight,
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then I left these streets for good.
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My days as short as they were wild.
Verse 8
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I'm Frenchy Cordero, I'm Angel Soto
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Indio Rivera, 'Baboo' Charlie Cruz
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The faces blurred in every grainy photo
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And fading headline of
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the Daily News
Verse 9
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Judge's Voice
Wiltwych School for Criminal
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Children
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Auburn, Brooklyn House of D.,
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Dannemora, Sing- Sing, Attica,
Greenhaven
Verse 10
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Twenty years inside, today you're free
Verse 11
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You cannot even read your story
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The pages piling up in shame
Before the words released you, the
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Guard would kill the light
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The night you took The
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Capeman for your name.
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I was born in Puerto Rico
Verse 12
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I was born in Puerto Rico
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Yo nacir in Puerto Rico
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All my heart is Puerto Rico
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All my soul is
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Puerto Rico
Outro 1
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Born in Puerto Rico (demo)
José Feliciano, Paul Simon
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