we came here when I was a child,

before I reached the age of 16

I was runnin’ with the gang and we were wild

He keeps looking but he don´t recognize me,

some guy from Lexington or Park

Red beans and rice from kitchen window,

it’s supper time and the Barrio is dark

No one knows you like I do,

nobody can know your heart the way I do

No one can testify to all that you´ve been through, but I will

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

Spanish Carribean my soul

We came here wearing summer clothes in winter,

hearts of sunshine in the cold

Your family rented this apartment,

you’d watch the streetlamps from your perch

In the sacramental hour your stepfather in black

preached the fire of the Pentecostal church

No one knows you like I do,

nobody can know your heart the way I do

No one can testify to all that you’ve

been through but this will

I was born in Puerto Rico,

came here when I was a child

Small change and sunlight,

and I left these streets for good,

my days as short as they were wild

I’m Carlos Apache, Angel Soto,

Frenchy Cordero, Babu Charlie Cruz

Your features blurred in ev’ry grainy photo,

and fading headlines of the Daily News

Wyltwyck school for crimonal children,

Auburn, Brooklyn House of D.,

Dannemora, Sing-Sing, Attica,

Greenhaven, 20 years inside, today you’re free

You cannot even read your story,

the pages piling up in shame,

before the words released you

The guard would kill the light,

the night you took

The Capeman for your name

I was born in Puerto Rico (8x)

Intro

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Play verse once without lyrics

The Mississippi Delta was
shining like a National guitar.
I am following the river down the
Highway through the cradle of the Civil war

Chorus

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I’m going to Graceland. Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee,
I’m going to Gracland.
Poor boys and pilgrims with families
and we are going to Graceland.
My traveling companion is nine years old
He is the child of my first marriage,
But I’ve reason to believe we both will be received
In Graceland

Truth or lie, the silence is revealing
An empty sky, a hidden mound of stone
But the CAT scan’s eye sees what the heart’s concealing
Now-a-days, when everything is known

[Refrain]

Maybe love’s an accident, or destiny is true
But you and I were born beneath a star of dazzling blue
Dazzling blue

Miles apart, though the miles can’t measure distance
Worlds apart on a rainy afternoon
But the road gets dirty and it offers no resistance
So turn your amp up and play your lonesome tune

[Refrain]

Maybe love’s an accident, or destiny is true
But you and I were born beneath a star of dazzling blue
Dazzling blue

Dazzling blue, roses red, fine white linen
To make a marriage bed
And we’ll build a wall that nothing can break through
And dream our dreams of dazzling blue

Sweet July, and we drove the Montauk Highway
And walked along the cliffs above the sea
And we wondered why, and imagined it was someday
And that is how the future came to be

Dazzling blue, roses red, fine white linen
To make a marriage bed
And we’ll build a wall that nothing can break through
And dream our dreams of daz[(A7)]zling blue

[Verse 1]

On the morning of her wedding day
When no one was awake [(C)]
She drove across the border
Leaving all the yellow roses on her wedding cake
Her mother’s tears, her breakfast order
She’s gone, gone, gone

[Instrumental]

[Verse 2]

There is a moment, a chip in time
When leaving home is the lesser crime
When your eyes are blind with tears
But your heart can see
Another life, another galaxy [C/B]

That night her dreams are storm-tossed as a willow

She hears the clouds
She sees the eye of a hurricane
As it sweeps across her island pillow
But she’s gone, gone, gone

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There is a moment, a chip in time
When leaving home is the lesser crime
When your eyes are blind with tears
But your heart can see
Another life, another galaxy

Well, the sun gets weary
And the sun goes down
Ever since the watermelon
And the lights come up
On the black pit town
Somebody says, “What’s a better thing to do?”
Well, it’s not just me
And it’s not just you
This is all around the world

[VERSE 2]
Out in the Indian Ocean somewhere
There’s a former army post
Abandoned now just like the war
And there’s no doubt about it
It was the myth of fingerprints
That’s what that old army post was for

Well, the sun gets bloody
And the sun goes down
Ever since the watermelon
And the lights come up
On the black pit town
Somebody says, “What’s a better thing to do?”
Well, it’s not just me
And it’s not just you
This is all around the world

[VERSE 3]
Over the mountain
Down in the valley
Lives the former talk-show host
Far and wide his name was known
He said “There’s no doubt about it
It was the myth of fingerprints
That’s why we must learn to live alone

Oo-oooo oo-oooo oo-oo oo oo-oo Whoa, live on, live on, live on.
Oo-oooo oo-oooo oo-oo oo oo-oo Whoa, live on, live on, live on.
Oo-oooo oo-oooo oo-oo oo oo-oo Whoa, live on, live on, live on.
All Around the…
Oo-oooo oo-oooo oo-oo oo oo-oo Whoa, live on, live on, live on.

My father was a fisherman my mama was a fisherman’s friend And
I was born in the boredom and the chowder.
So when I reached my prime I left my home in the maritimes
headed down the turnpike for New England, Sweet New England.

solo:

Holes in my confidence holes in the knees of my jeans I’s
left without a penny in my pocket Oo hoo hoo wee I’s a – bout
destituted as a kid could be And I wish I wore a ring so I could
hock it I’d like to hock it

A young girl in a parking lot was preachin to a crowd singin.
sacred songs and reading from the bible Well I
told her I was lost and she told me all about the Pentecost And I

seen that girl as the road to my surviv – – – – – – al

solo :

Just latter on the very same night when I
crept to her tent with a flashlight and my long years of innocence
ended Well she took me to the woods sayin’
”Here comes somethin’ and it feels so good!” And just like a dog I was
befriended I was befriended

Oh oh what a night Oh what a garden of delight
Even now that sweet memory lingers. I was
playin’ my guitar lying underneath the stars Just
thankin’ the lord for my fingers for my fingers

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