: : Pedro lives out of the Wiltshire Hotel : : He looks out a window without glass : : The walls are made of cardboard, newspapers on his feet : : 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 :-- : "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"
