Lou Reed

Dirty Boulevard

Lou Reed


Tom: C

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