(Paul Simon)
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SALVADOR
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I was born in Puerto Rico
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We came here when I was a child
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Before I reached the age of sixteen
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I was running with the gang and we were wild
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He keeps looking but he don't recognize me.
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Some guy from Lexington or Park
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Red beans and rice from kitchen windows
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Supper-time and the barrio is dark.
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No one knows you like I do
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Nobody can know your heart the way I do
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No one can testify to all that you've been through
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But I will.
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SAL & THE VAMPIRES
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I was born in Puerto Rico
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And my blood is Taino
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Spanish Caribbean my soul
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SALVADOR
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We came here wearing summer clothes in winter
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Hearts of sunshine in the cold
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Your family rented this apartment
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You'd watch the street lamps from your perch
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In the sacramental hour your stepfather in black
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Preached the fire of the Pentecostal Church
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No one knows you like I do
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Nobody can know your heart the way I do
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No one can testify to all that you've been through
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But this will.
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SAL & THEVAMPIRES
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I was born in Puerto Rico
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Came here when I was a child.
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SALVADOR
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Small change and sunlight, then I left these streets
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for good.
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My days as short as they were wild.
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CARLOSAPACHE
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I'm Carlos Apache
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ANGEL SOTO
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Angel Soto
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FRENCHY CORDERO
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Frenchy Cordero
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BABU CHARLIE CRUZ
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Babu Charlie Cruz
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SALVADOR
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Your features blurred in every grainy photo
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And fading headline of the Daily News
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Wiltwyck School for Criminal Children
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Auburn, Brooklyn House of D.,
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Dannemora, Sing-Sing, Attica,
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Greenhaven
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SALVADOR
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Twenty years inside, today you're free.
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You cannot even read your story
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The pages piling up in shame
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Before the words released you, the guard would
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kill the light
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The night you took The Capeman for your name.
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CHORUS
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I was born in Puerto Rico
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I was born in Puerto Rico
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I was born in Puerto Rico
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I was born in Puerto Rico
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I was born in Puerto Rico
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I was born in Puerto Rico
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I was born in Puerto Rico
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I was born in Puerto Rico
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LAZARUS
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Yo naci en Puerto Rico
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Yo naci en Puerto Rico
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Mi corazon es Puerto R.ICO
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Mi alma es Puerto Rico
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Born In Puerto Rico
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| Paul Simon |
