Born In Puerto Rico

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I was born in PuertoRico, 



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we came here when I was a child, 



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before I reached the age of 16 



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I was runnin' 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 window, 



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it's 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, but I will 



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



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Spanish Carribean my soul 



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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 streetlamps 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,



Bb                F                                   C 

nobody can know your heart the way I do 



Bb                 F           C                   

No one can testify to all that you've 



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been through but this will 



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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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Small change and sunlight, 



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and I left these streets for good,



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my days as short as they were wild 



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I'm Carlos Apache, Angel Soto, 



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Frenchy Cordero, Babu Charlie Cruz 



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Your features blurred in ev'ry grainy photo,



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and fading headlines of the Daily News 



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Wyltwyck school for crimonal children,

 

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 Auburn, Brooklyn House of D.,



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 Dannemora, Sing-Sing, Attica, 



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Greenhaven, 20 years inside, today you're free 



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You cannot even read your story, 



Bb           C              Bb C F 

the pages piling up in shame, 



F

before the words released you 



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The guard would kill the light, 



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the night you took 



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The Capeman for your name 



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I was born in Puerto Rico (8x)