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Southwest Side Tab

by Franky Perez


USA

Franky Perez
Southwest Side
from Poor Man's Son (Lava Records)
Carne con Papas/EMI Publishing


                           
There's a Spanish girl with ebony eyes
                       
Selling Cuban coffee and guava pies
                            
While the boys hang at the corner store
                        
Drinkin Iron Beer rollin' dice on the floor
                                 
There is two old timers talking politics
                             
About the Bay Of Pigs and Alfa '66
                      
Willie Chirino on the radio
            
Che Guevara is no hero


                       
It's just another day
                      
On the Southwest side


                              
There's a soldier standing in silk fatigues
             
Dictating who stays and who leaves
                              
While a desperate man crashes through the gates
                        
There's an uprising at Guantanamo Bay
                             
You don't know what you've got till it's gone
                             
So embrace your freedom don't ever let it go
                                     
There's an American flag waving in a Cuban breeze
Em7             D (once and let ring)
Fidel Castro is no Jos� Martiz


                       
It's just another day
                      
On the Southwest side
                       
It's just another day
                      
On the Southwest side
                       
It's just another day
                     
On the Southwest side


                      
They were born in the ocean
                 
They were baptized by the sea
                 
They find a revolution to fight
          
Freedom in Miami Beach


                       
It's just another day
                     
On the Southwest side
                       
It's just another day
                     
On the Southwest side
                       
It's just another day
                       
It's just another day
                     C  D (once and stop)
It's just another day
                 
On the Southwest side


Oh say can you see