Born In Puerto Rico Lyrics

Born In Puerto Rico lyrics

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