Born in Puerto Rico chords by
Paul Simon
Paul Simon

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Key: D minor
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
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 win dows
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It's supper-time and
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and the barrio is dark.
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No one knows you like I
Verse 3
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do
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No one can know your heart 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 sum
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mer clothes in winter
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Hearts of sunshine in the cold.
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Interlude 1
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Verse 5
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Your family rented this apartment
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You'd watch the street
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lamps from your perch
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In the sacramental house your
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stepfather in black
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Preached the fire of
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the pentecostal church.
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No one knows you like I
Verse 6
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do
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Nobody can know your
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heart the way i do
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No one can testify to all
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that 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
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Soto
Indio Rivera, 'Baboo' Charlie Cruz
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The faces blurred in every grainy photo
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And fading headline of the Daily News
Verse 9
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,
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Greenhaven
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Twenty years inside, today
Verse 10
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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.
Verse 12
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I was born in Puerto Rico
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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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