Bruce Springsteen — Balboa Park Chords

Balboa Park — Bruce Springsteen

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He lay his blanket underneath the freeway 
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as the evening sky grew dark 
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took a sniff of toncho from his 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 hung out with 
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he swallowed their balloons of cocaine 
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brought 'em cross the 12th street strip 
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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 train tracks 
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and in through the storm drain 
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they stretched their blankets out 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 in river mud 
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they come north to California 
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end up with the poison in their blood 

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He did what he had to do for money 
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sometimes he sent home what he 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 12th street 
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a big car come fast down the boulevard 
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spider stood caught in it's headlights 
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got hit and went down hard 
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as the car sped away spider held his stomach 
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limped to his blanket 'neath the underpass 
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lie there tasting his own blood on his tongue 
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closed his eyes and listened to the cars 
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rushin by so fast 

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