PAUL SIMON - Born In Puerto Rico lyrics

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SALVADOR

I was born in Puerto Rico

We came here when I was a child

Before I reached the age of sixteen

I was running 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 windows

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.

SAL & THE VAMPIRES

I was born in Puerto Rico

And my blood is Taino

Spanish Caribbean my soul

SALVADOR

We came here wearing summer clothes in winter

Hearts of sunshine in the cold

Your family rented this apartment

You'd watch the street lamps 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.

SAL & THE VAMPIRES

I was born in Puerto Rico

Came here when I was a child.

SALVADOR

Small change and sunlight, then I left these streets for good.

My days as short as they were wild.

CARLOS APACHE

I'm Carlos Apache

ANGEL SOTO

Angel Soto

FRENCHY CORDERO

Frenchy Cordero

BABU CHARLIE CRUZ

Babu Charlie Cruz

SALVADOR

Your features blurred in every grainy photo

And fading headline of the Daily News

Wiltwyck School for Criminal Children

Auburn, Brooklyn House of D.,

Dannemora, Sing-Sing, Attica,

Greenhaven

SALVADOR

Twenty 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.

CHORUS

I was born in Puerto Rico

I was born in Puerto Rico

I was born in Puerto Rico

I was born in Puerto Rico

I was born in Puerto Rico

I was born in Puerto Rico

I was born in Puerto Rico

I was born in Puerto Rico

LAZARUS

Yo nací en Puerto Rico

Yo nací en Puerto Rico

Mi corazón es Puerto Rico

Mi alma es Puerto Rico

Lead Vocal, Acoustic Guitar-Paul Simon

Coro Vocal-Danny Rivera

Background Vocal-Ray De La Paz

Background Vocal-Nestor Sanchez

Piano, Synthesizer-Oscar Hernandez

Tres, Plenaro-Nelson Gonzalez

Cuatro-Edgardo Miranda

Guitar-Vincent Nguini

Bass-John Beal

Drums-Robby Ameen

Bongos, Cymbal-Bobby Allende

Timbales, Congas, Cua-Marc Quinones

Trumpet-1st solo-David Rodriguez

Trumpet-2nd solo-Ray Vega

Viola-Juliet Hafner

Flute-Oriente Lopez

French Horn-Stewart Rose

Oboe-Marcia Butler

Orchestration-Stanley Silverman