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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