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	Dm
	I was born in PuertoRico,

	Gm
	we came here when I was a child,

	A	Dm
b	efore I reached the age of 16

	Bb	A	Dm
I was runn	in' with the gang and	we were wild

	Dm
	He keeps looking but he don´t recognize me,

	Gm
	some guy from Lexington or Park

Red beans and rice from kitchen window,

	A	Dm
	it's supper time and the Barrio is dark

	Bb	F
	No one knows	you like I do,

	C	Bb	F	C
	nob	ody can know your h	eart the way I do

	Bb	F	C	A	Dm
	No one can testify	to all that	you´ve been through,	but I will

	Dm
	I was born in Puerto Rico, and my blood is Taino,

	Gm
	Spanish Carribean my soul

	A	Dm
	We came here wearing summer clothe	s in winter,

	A	Dm
	hearts of sunshine in the cold

	Bb	F	C	F	C
	Your family rented	this apartment	,

	Bb	C	Bb	C	F
	you'd watch the streetlamp	s from your perch

	F	C
In the sacramental hour your	stepfather in b	lack

	A	Dm
preached the fire of	the Pentecostal church

	Bb	F	C
	No one knows	you like I do,

	Bb	F	C
	nobody can know yo	ur heart the way I do

	Bb	F	C
	No one can testify	to all that	you've

	A	Dm
	been through but this will

	Dm
	I was born in Puerto Rico,

	Gm
c	ame here when I was a child

	A
	Small change and sunlight,

	Dm
and I left these streets for	good,

	A	Dm
	my days as short as they were wild

	Dm
	I'm Carlos Apache, Angel Soto,

	Gm
	Frenchy Cordero, Babu Charlie Cruz

Your features blurred in ev'ry grainy photo,

	A	Dm
and fading headlines	of the Daily News

Wyltwyck school for crimonal children,

	Gm
	Auburn, Brooklyn House of D.,

	A
	Dannemora, Sing-Sing, Attica,

Greenhaven, 20 years inside, today you're free

You cannot even read your story,

	Bb	C	Bb	C	F
	the pages pil	ing up in shame	,

	F
	before the words released you

	C
	The guard would kill the light,

	A
	the night you took

	Dm
	The Capeman for your name

I was born in Puerto Rico (8x)

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Born In Puerto Rico

Paul Simon

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