TAB : Dirty Blvd (Lou Reed)



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

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.... 


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