#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## From: jo94003@black.ox.ac.uk (G W Owen) > G D A D > Pedro lives out of the Wiltshire Hotel > G D A D > He looks out a window without glass > G D A D > The walls are made of cardboard, newspapers on his feet > G D A D > His father beats him 'cos he's too tired to beg.. > >[same throughout] > He's got 9 brothers and sisters, they're brought up on their knees > Its hard to run when a coathanger beats you on the thighs > Pedro dreams of being older and killing the old man > But thats a slim chance, he's going to the boulevard.. > > [Chorus] > He's going to end up on the Dirty Boulevard > He's going out on the Dirty Boulevard > He's going down to the Dirty Boulevard > [chords once through] > > This room cost $300 a day you can believe it man its true > Somewhere a landlords laughing till he wets his pants > No one dreams of being a doctor or a lawyer or anything > They dream of dealing on the Dirty Boulevard > > Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor I'll piss on them > That's what the statue of bigotry says > Your poor huddled masses lets club 'em to death > Get it over with and just dump 'em on The Boulevard > > [rpt Chorus] > > Outside it a bright night there's an opera at Lincoln Centre > And movie stars arrive by limousine > The kleig light shoot up over the skyline of Manhattan > But the lights are out on the mean streets > > A small kid stands by the Lincoln Tunnel > He's selling plastic roses for a buck > The traffics backed up to 39th Street > The TV whores are calling the cops out for a suck > > Back at the Wiltshire,Pedro sit there dreaming > He's found a book on magic in a garbage can > He looks at the pictures and stares up at the cracked cieling > "At the count of 3" he says "I hope I can disappear" > And fly fly away.... > > [rpt and fade] > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > The timings pretty straight 4s except for a burst of triplets at the >end of each chorus... > I hope this posts ok > > Gaz > xxxx >-- >G W Owen (jo94003@black.ox.ac.uk) > "There are these two women outside a shop and one of them points at the window > and says 'Thats the one I'd get.' > Then they both got eaten by a Cyclops"