Balboa Park chords by Bruce Springsteen

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 3rd

Balboa Park - Bruce Springsteen

(Capo 3rd fred)
 C majorC     G+G     C majorC    G+G     D MajorD       C majorC   G+G
d--------0-------0-|-------0-----0---|---------0---|--------------|
b------------------|---------------0-|-------0-----|------1-------|
g------0-------0---|-----0-----------|-----2-----2-|----0-------0-|
D----2-------0-----|---2-------0-----|---0---------|--2-------0---|
A------------------|-----------------|-------------|--------------|
E--3-------3-------|-3-------3-------|-2-----------|-0------0-----|

      C majorC         G+G      C majorC   G+G
He lay his blanket underneath the freeway

     C majorC      G+G     C majorC
As the evening sky grew dark

           G+G          C majorC  G+G
Took a sniff of toncho from his coke can

       D MajorD        C majorC
And headed through Balboa Park

          G+G    C majorC  G+G
Where the men in Mercedes

    C majorC      G+G   C majorC
Come nightly to employ

         G+G     C majorC   G+G
In the cool San Diego evening

    D MajorD          C majorC | C majorC G+G | C majorC G+G | D MajorD | C majorC G+G
the services of the border boys

   C majorC         G+G     C majorC
He grew up near the zona norte

 G+G            C majorC       G+G       C majorC
With the hustlers and smugglers he hung out with

            G+G      C majorC    G+G
He swallowed their balloons of cocaine

        D MajorD           C majorC
Brought 'em cross the 12th street strip

      G+G   C majorC   G+G
Sleeping in a shelter

 C majorC        G+G      C majorC
If the night got too cold

       G+G    C majorC   G+G
Runnin' from the migra

 D MajorD        C majorC | C majorC G+G | C majorC G+G | D MajorD | C majorC G+G
of the border patrol

      C majorC       G+G      C majorC      G+G
Past the Salvage yard 'cross the train tracks

     C majorC      G+G      C majorC
And in through the storm drain

               G+G        C majorC    G+G
They stretched their blankets out neath the freeway

   D MajorD          C majorC
And each one took a name

      C majorC       G+G
There was x-man and cochese

  C majorC         G+G          C majorC
Little spider his sneakers covered in river mud

      C majorC        G+G
They come north to California

   D MajorD              C majorC | C majorC G+G | C majorC G+G | D MajorD | C majorC
end up with the poison in their blood

    E minor 7Em7            G+G
He did what he had to do for money

               D MajorD       C majorC
Sometimes he sent home what he could spare

   E minor 7Em7               C majorC
The rest went to hi-top sneakers and toncho

   G+G         D MajorD      G+G
And jeans like the gavatchos wear

   C majorC          G+G       C majorC    G+G
One night the border patrol swept 12th street

    C majorC        G+G         C majorC
A augmentedA big car come fast down the boulevard

            G+G      C majorC   G+G
Spider stood caught in it's headlights

   D MajorD          C majorC
Got hit and went down hard

     C majorC          G+G       C majorC    G+G
As the car sped away spider held his stomach

        C majorC         G+G     C majorC
Limped to his blanket 'neath the underpass

          G+G        C majorC     G+G
Lie there tasting his own blood on his tongue

       D MajorD
Closed his eyes and listened to the cars

    C majorC   G+G | C majorC | G+G
rushin by so fast

 C majorC  G+G  D MajorD  E minor 7Em7
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-0--0--2--0--
-2--0--0--0--
-3--2-----2--
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