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Paul Simon - The Boxer
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Paul Simon - Father And Daughter
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Paul Simon - 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
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Paul Simon - Graceland
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Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
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Paul Simon - The Sound Of Silence
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Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years
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Paul Simon - Bridge over troubled water
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Paul Simon - The Obvious Child
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Paul Simon - Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes
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Paul Simon - Slip Slidin' Away
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Paul Simon - Kodachrome
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Paul Simon - Mrs. Robinson
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Paul Simon - American Tune
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Paul Simon - Homeless
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Paul Simon - Mother & Child Reunion
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Paul Simon - The Boy In The Bubble
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Paul Simon - I Know What I Know
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Paul Simon - Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard
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Paul Simon - Scarborough Fair
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Paul Simon - Learn How To Fall
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Paul Simon - Born At The Right Time
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Paul Simon - Cool Papa Bell
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Paul Simon - Duncan
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Paul Simon - Everything About It Is A Love Song
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Paul Simon - Loves Me Like A Rock
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Paul Simon - Old Friends
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Paul Simon - Something So Right
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Paul Simon - Spirit Voices
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Paul Simon - All Around The World Or The Myth Of Fingerprints
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Paul Simon - Born In Puerto Rico
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Paul Simon - Can I Forgive Him
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Paul Simon - Crazy Love, Vol. II
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Paul Simon - Everything Put Together Falls Apart
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Paul Simon - Hearts And Bones
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Paul Simon - Jesus Is The Answer
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Paul Simon - Late In The Evening
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Paul Simon - My Professional Opinion
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Paul Simon - Rene & Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War
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Paul Simon - Run That Body Down
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Paul Simon - That Was Your Mother
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Paul Simon - The Lord
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Paul Simon - The Rhythm Of The Saints
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Paul Simon - The Side of a Hill
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Paul Simon - Trail Of Volcanoes
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Paul Simon - Under African Skies
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Paul Simon - You're Kind
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Paul Simon - Your Forgiveness
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Paul Simon - A Heart In New York
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Paul Simon - Adios Hermanos
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Paul Simon - All Because Of You
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Paul Simon - Allergies
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Paul Simon - Bernadette
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Paul Simon - Can't Run But
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Paul Simon - Cars Are Cars
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Paul Simon - Cécilia
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Paul Simon - Darling Lorraine
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Paul Simon - El Condor Pasa
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Paul Simon - Further To Fly
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Paul Simon - God Bless The Absentee
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Paul Simon - Gumboots
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Paul Simon - Have a Good Time
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Paul Simon - Horace and Pete
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Paul Simon - How The Heart Approaches What It Yearns
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Paul Simon - I do It For Your Love
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Paul Simon - Killer Wants To Go To College II
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Paul Simon - Long, Long Day
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Paul Simon - Love Is Like a Braid
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Paul Simon - My Little Town
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Paul Simon - Nobody
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Paul Simon - One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor
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Paul Simon - Proof
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Paul Simon - Quality
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Paul Simon - Questions For The Angels
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Paul Simon - Quiet
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Paul Simon - She Moves On
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Paul Simon - St. Judy's Comet
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Paul Simon - Sunday Afternoon
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Paul Simon - That's Why God Made The Movies
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Paul Simon - The Cool, Cool River
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Paul Simon - The Sacred Harp
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Paul Simon - The Vampires
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Paul Simon - Thelma
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Paul Simon - Time Is An Ocean
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Paul Simon - Virgil
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Paul Simon - A Church Is Burning
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Paul Simon - A Poem On The Underground Wall
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Paul Simon - Ace In The Hole
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Paul Simon - America
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Paul Simon - Another Galaxy
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Paul Simon - April comes she will
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Paul Simon - Armistice Day
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Paul Simon - Beautiful
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Paul Simon - Blessed
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Paul Simon - Congratulations
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Paul Simon - Dazzling Blue
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Paul Simon - Gone At Last
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Paul Simon - Homeward Bound
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Paul Simon - How Can You Live In The Northeast
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Paul Simon - Hurricane Eye
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Paul Simon - I Am a Rock
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Paul Simon - I Don't Believe
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Paul Simon - In a Parade
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Paul Simon - Insomniac's Lullaby
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Paul Simon - Jonah
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Paul Simon - Killer Wants To Go To College
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Paul Simon - Look At That
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Paul Simon - Love
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Paul Simon - Love And Hard Times
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Paul Simon - Mabellene
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Paul Simon - New York Is My Home
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Paul Simon - Night Game
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Paul Simon - Oh, Marion
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Paul Simon - Old
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Paul Simon - Once upon a time there was an ocean
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Paul Simon - One-Trick Pony
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Paul Simon - Outrageous
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Paul Simon - Papa Hobo
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Paul Simon - Paranoia Blues
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Paul Simon - Peace Like a River
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Paul Simon - Pigs, Sheep And Wolves
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Paul Simon - Richard Cory
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Paul Simon - Satin Summer Nights
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Paul Simon - Senorita With A Necklace Of Tears
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Paul Simon - Silent Eyes
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Paul Simon - So Beautiful Or So What
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Paul Simon - Soft Parachutes
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Paul Simon - Some Folks Lives Roll Easy
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Paul Simon - Song About The Moon
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Paul Simon - Spiral Highway
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Paul Simon - Stranded In a Limousine
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Paul Simon - Stranger To Stranger
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Paul Simon - Street Angel
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Paul Simon - Sure Don't Feel Like Love
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Paul Simon - Take Me To The Mardi Gras
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Paul Simon - Tenderness
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Paul Simon - That's Me
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Paul Simon - That's Where I Belong
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Paul Simon - The Afterlife
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Paul Simon - The Coast
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Paul Simon - The Late Great Johnny Ace
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Paul Simon - The Lion Sleeps Tonight
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Paul Simon - The Riverbank
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Paul Simon - The Teacher
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Paul Simon - The Werewolf
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Paul Simon - Think Too Much
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Paul Simon - Trailways Bus
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Paul Simon - Train In The Distance
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Paul Simon - Wait
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Paul Simon - Wake up little Susie
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Paul Simon - Wartime Prayers
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Paul Simon - Was a Sunny Day
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Paul Simon - When Numbers Get Serious
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Paul Simon - Wristband
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Paul Simon - You Can Call Me All
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Paul Simon - You're The One
Born In Puerto Rico
Paul Simon
We came here when I was a child
Before I made to my sixteenth
I was running with the gang and we were wild.
He keeps looking but don't recognize me.
Some guy from Lexington or Park
Rrd beans and rice from kitchen windows
It's supper-time and the barrio is dark.
No one knows you like I do
No one can know your heart the way I do
No one can testify to all that you've been though
But I will.
The Vampiros
I was born in Puerto Rico
And my blood is taino
Spanish Caribbean in my soul
We came here wearing summer clothes in winter
Hearts of sunshine in the cold.
Salvador
Your family rented this apartment
You'd watch the street lamps from your perch
In the sacramental house your stepfather in black
Preached the fire of the pentecostal church.
No one knows you like I do
Nobody can know your heart the way i do
No one can testify to all that you've been through
But this will.
The Vampiros
I was born in Puerto Rico
Came here when I was a child.
Small change and sunlight, then I left these streets for good.
My days as short as they were wild.
I'm Frenchy Cordero, I'm Angel Soto
Indio Rivera, 'Baboo' Charlie Cruz
The faces blurred in every grainy photo
And fading headline of the Daily News
LOUDSPEAKER:
Judge's Voice
Wiltwych School for Criminal Children
Auburn, Brooklyn House of D.,
Dannemora, Sing-Sing, Attica,
Greenhaven
Salvador
Twenty years inside, today you're free
You cannot even read your story
The pages piling up in shame
Before the words released you, the
Guard would kill the light
The night you took The Capeman for your name.
Barrio Chorus
I was born in Puerto Rico
I was born in Puerto Rico
Yo nacir in Puerto Rico
All my heart is Puerto Rico
All my soul is Puerto Rico
Copyright © 1996 by Paul Simon and Derek Wolcott.
All rights reserved. Used by permission
