Balboa Park chords by Bruce Springsteen

• Capo on 3rd

Balboa Park - Bruce Springsteen

(Capo 3rd fred)
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            C                 G            C     G
He lay his blanket underneath the freeway

         C           G          C
As the evening sky grew dark

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

              D                C
And headed through Balboa Park

                   G       C    G
Where the men in Mercedes

        C            G      C
Come nightly to employ

                  G          C     G
In the cool San Diego evening

        D                    C | C G | C G | D | C G
the services of the border boys

     C                  G         C
He grew up near the zona norte

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

                       G           C       G
He swallowed their balloons of cocaine

               D                      C
Brought 'em cross the 12th street strip

            G      C      G
Sleeping in a shelter

 C               G           C
If the night got too cold

             G        C     G
Runnin' from the migra

 D                C | C G | C G | D | C G
of the border patrol

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

         C            G           C
And in through the storm drain

                              G                C       G
They stretched their blankets out neath the freeway

      D                   C
And each one took a name

           C              G
There was x-man and cochese

   C                  G                    C
Little spider his sneakers covered in river mud

            C               G
They come north to California

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

        Em7                        G
He did what he had to do for money

                              D             C
Sometimes he sent home what he could spare

      Em7                             C
The rest went to hi-top sneakers and toncho

      G                  D           G
And jeans like the gavatchos wear

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

        C               G                 C
A big car come fast down the boulevard

                       G            C     G
Spider stood caught in it's headlights

      D                   C
Got hit and went down hard

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

                C                  G          C
Limped to his blanket 'neath the underpass

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

             D
Closed his eyes and listened to the cars

        C     G  | C | G
rushin by so fast

  C    G    D    Em7
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