Dirty Boulevard by Lou Reed
Key: DD | Capo: 0fr |  Left-Handed 

    



Intro
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Verse 1
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Pedro lives out of the Wilshire Hotel
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He looks out a window without glass
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The walls are made of cardboard, newspapers on his feet
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And his father beats him 'cause he's too tired to beg
Verse 2
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He's got 9 brothers and sisters, they're brought up on their knees
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It's hard to run when a coat hanger beats you on the thighs
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Pedro dreams of being older and killing the old man
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But that's a slim chance he's going to the boulevard
Chorus
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He's going to end up, on the dirty boulevard
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He's going out, to the dirty boulevard
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He's going down, to the dirty boulevard
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Verse 3
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This room cost 2,000 dollars a month, you can believe it man it's true
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Somewhere a landlord's laughing till he wets his pants
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No one dreams of being a doctor or a lawyer or anything
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They dream of dealing on the dirty boulevard
Verse 4
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Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor I'll piss on 'em
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That's what the Statue of Bigotry says
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Your poor huddled masses, let's club 'em to death
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And get it over with and just dump 'em on the boulevard
Chorus
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Get em out, on the dirty boulevard
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Going out, to the dirty boulevard
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They're going down, on the dirty boulevard
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Going out...
Verse 5]
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Outside it's a bright night, there's an opera at Lincoln Center
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Movie stars arrive by limousine
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The klieg lights shoot up over the skyline of Manhattan
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But the lights are out on the mean streets
Verse 6]
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A small kid stands by the Lincoln Tunnel
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He's selling plastic roses for a buck
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The traffic's backed up to 39th Street
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The TV whores are calling the cops out for a suck
Verse 7]
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And back at the Wilshire, Pedro sits there dreaming
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He's found a book on magic in a garbage can
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He looks at the pictures and stares up at the cracked ceiling
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"At the count of 3," he says, "I hope I can disappear"
Outro
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And fly fly away, from this dirty boulevard
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I want to fly, from the dirty boulevard
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I want to fly, from the dirty boulevard
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I want to fly fly fly fly, from the dirty boulevard
[Denouement]
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I want to fly away
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I want to fly
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Fly fly away-yay
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I want to fly
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Fly fly away (Fly a-)
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Fly fly fly (-way, oh ah...)
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Fly fly away (I want to fly fly away)
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Fly away (I want to fly, wow woh, no, fly away)