Dirty Boulevard chords by Lou Reed

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard
Difficulty: Intermediate
Submitted by: Lisa

	G+G      D MajorD     A augmentedA      D MajorD
	Pedro lives out of the Wiltshire Hotel
		    G+G	   D MajorD    A augmentedA    D MajorD
	He looks out a window without glass
	  G+G      	D MajorD      A augmentedA        D MajorD
	The walls are made of cardboard, newspapers on his feet
					G+G      D MajorD   A augmentedA  D MajorD
	His father beats him ’cos he’s too tired to beg..

[same throughout]
	He’s got 9 brothers and sisters, they’re brought up on their knees
	Its hard to run when a coathanger beats you on the thighs
	Pedro dreams of being older and killing the old man
	But thats a slim chance, he’s going to the boulevard..

	[Chorus]
	He’s going to end up on the Dirty Boulevard
	He’s going out on the Dirty Boulevard
	He’s going down to the Dirty Boulevard
	[chords once through]

	This room cost $300 a day you can believe it man its true
	Somewhere a landlords laughing till he wets his pants
	No one dreams of being a doctor or a lawyer or anything
	They dream of dealing on the Dirty Boulevard

	Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor I’ll piss on them
	That’s what the statue of bigotry says
	Your poor huddled masses lets club ’em to death
	Get it over with and just dump ’em on The Boulevard

	[rpt Chorus]

	Outside it a bright night there’s an opera at Lincoln Centre
	And movie stars arrive by limousine
	The kleig light shoot up over the skyline of Manhattan
	But the lights are out on the mean streets

	A augmentedA small kid stands by the Lincoln Tunnel
	He’s selling plastic roses for a buck
	The traffics backed up to 39th Street
	The TV whores are calling the cops out for a suck

	Back at the Wiltshire,Pedro sit there dreaming
	He’s found a book on magic in a garbage can
	He looks at the pictures and stares up at the cracked cieling
	¨At the count of 3¨ he says ¨I hope I can disappear¨
	And fly fly away....

	[rpt and fade]

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	The timings pretty straight 4s except for a burst of triplets at the
    end of each chorus...