Tom: C
Intro:
(Capo 3rd fred)

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           C               G          C   G
He lay his blanket underneath the freeway
        C         G        C
as the evening sky grew dark
                    G                 C  G
took a sniff of toncho from his coke can
             D              C
and headed through Balboa Park
                  G     C  G
where the men in Mercedes
       C          G    C
come nightly to employ
                 G        C   G
in the cool San Diego evening
        D                    C  |  C G  |  C G  |  D  |  C G
the services of the border boys
    C                G       C
He grew up near the zona norte
 G                     C            G           C
with the hustlers and smugglers he hung out with
                      G         C     G
he swallowed their balloons of cocaine
              D                    C
brought 'em cross the 12th street strip
           G    C    G
sleeping in a shelter
C             G         C
if the night got too cold
            G      C   G
runnin' from the migra
 D                C  |  C G  |  C G  |  D  |  C G
of the border patrol
          C            G          C         G
Past the Salvage yard 'cross the train tracks
        C          G         C
and in through the storm drain
                             G              C     G
they stretched their blankets out neath the freeway
     D                 C
and each one took a name
          C            G
there was x-man and cochese
  C                G                  C
little spider his sneakers covered in river mud
           C             G
they come north to California
     D                            C  |  C G  |  C G  |  D  |  C
end up with the poison in their blood
       Em7                    G
He did what he had to do for money
                             D           C
sometimes he sent home what he could spare
     Em7                         C
the rest went to hi-top sneakers and toncho
     G                D         G
and jeans like the gavatchos wear
     C                 G            C      G
one night the border patrol swept 12th street
       C             G               C
a big car come fast down the boulevard
                      G          C   G
spider stood caught in it's headlights
     D                 C
got hit and went down hard
        C                 G           C     G
as the car sped away spider held his stomach
               C                G        C
limped to his blanket 'neath the underpass
                   G             C       G
lie there tasting his own blood on his tongue
            D
closed his eyes and listened to the cars
        C     G   |  C  |  G
rushin by so fast