(Paul Simon)
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HERNANDEZ
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Well, did you bring me my money,
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My cab fare
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My new shoes?
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I got expenses, you know
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Where's my weekly dues?
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SAL
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I ain't giving you my fucking money.
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HERNANDEZ
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Oye, mother fucker, where's this jibaro from?
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You go when I say.
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I call, you come.
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You know it takes a strong man to survive.
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It ain't no accident that you're still alive.
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HERNANDEZ & THE VAMPIRES
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We stand for the neighborhood
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HERNANDEZ
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He still lives with his mami, but he sneaks down,
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A coolie in the shadow of the playground
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You want to fight for your people, don't you, Sal?
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SAL
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Well, yeah, if I got to.
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HERNANDEZ
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Oh, you got to. Come here, I want to show
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you something.
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This is the cave of The Vampires,
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Count Dracula's castle,
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The very sight could turn a white man grey.
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Made in the shade, use my umbrella
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Black like the night we fly in.
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That blade is all you need to keep the dogs away.
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So, you want to be a vampire, man! That's good.
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We always looking for young blood in the
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neighborhood now
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Carlos Apache collects the dues
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So you bring us something that we can use
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HERNANDEZ & THE VAMPIRES
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If you got the balls, then come on, mette mano.
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If you got the balls, then come on, mette mano.
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HERNANDEZ
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Frenchy Cordero goes down to Hell's Kitchen
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To sell the Irish some weed
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So this Paddy boy's mother on the stoop
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starts bitchin'
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'Bout spies is a mongrel breed
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Now here comes her son
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He looks like a ton of corned beef
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Floating in beer
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He says
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'Fucking Puerto Rican dope-dealing punk
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Get your shit-brown ass out of here.'
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HERNANDEZ & THE VAMPIRES
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'Fucking Puerto Rican dope-dealing punk
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Get your shit-brown ass out of here.'
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We stand for the neighborhood.
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HERNANDEZ
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So the shanty-town Irish they kicked his ass good.
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Fractured his collar bone
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Cono, all I was thinking is, 'What home of the brave?
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This a fucking war zone'
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THE VAMPIRES
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If you got the balls, then come on, mette mano,
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We stand for the neighborhood.
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If you got cojones, come on, mette mano
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We stand for the neighborhood
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If you got the balls, then come on, mette mano,
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We stand for the neighborhood.
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If you got cojones, come on, mette mano
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The Vampires
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Paul Simon |