Paul Simon – The Vampires (Guitar)

Capo 3
Key
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Versions (2)

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Chords

[Intro] Em C B Am [Verse 1]
Em            C           B      Am
Well, did you bring me my money?

   Em        C     B            Am
My cab fare,    my new shoes?

Em      C                  B    
I got expenses, you know.       

                  Am
Where's my weekly dues?

Em                 C                 B  Am
I ain't giving you my fucking money
[Verse 2]
Em          C                          B       Am
Oye, motherfucker, where's this jibaro from?

Em            C     B          Am
You go when I say,     I call, you come

Em          C             B           Am
You know it takes a strong man to survive

Em           C            B             Am
It ain't no accident that you're still alive.

Em  C   B             Am
We      stand for the neighborhood

Em                      C                          
He still lives with his Mami, but he sneaks down,  

B                 Am
  A coolie in the shadow of the playground

Em                         C                        B   
You want to fight for your people, don't you, Sal?      

      Am
Well, yeah, if I got to

Em      C          B   
Oh, you got to.        

     Am    Em          C                   B  Am
Come here,   I want to show you something
[Verse 3]
Em          C           B         Am
This is the cave of The Vampires.

Em    C            B    Am
Count Dracula's castle

Em       C           B      Am
The very sight could turn a white man grey

Em          C       B          Am
Made in the shade,    use my umbrella

Em             C               B      Am
Black like the night we fly in

Em            C         B          Am
That blade is all you need to keep the dogs away

Em                            C
So, you want to be a Vampire, man! That's good

          B                              Am
We always looking for young blood in the neighborhood now

Em                         C     
Carlos Apache collects the dues. 

       B                              Am
So you bring us something that we can use
[Interlude]
Em             C           B        Am
If you got the balls, then come on, mette mano

Em             C           B        Am
If you got the balls, then come on, mette mano
[Verse 4]
Em                   C                      
Frenchy Cordero goes down to hell's kitchen 

            B                Am
To sell the Irish some weed

Em                                C                     
So this Paddy boy's mother on the stoop starts bitching 

      B                       Am
'bout spics is a mongrel breed

Em                     
Now here comes her son 

         C                    B                       Am
He looks like a ton of corned beef floating in beer

Em                      C      B           Am
He says "Fucking Puerto Rican dope-dealing punk,

Em                      C              B  Am
get your shit-brown ass out of here"

Em             C      B           Am
Fucking Puerto Rican dope-dealing punk

Em                      C            B  Am
Get your shit-brown ass out of here

Em   C    B             Am
We        stand for the neighborhood
[Verse 3]
Em                            C                   
So the shanty-town Irish they kicked his ass good 

B                          Am
Fractured his collar bone

Em                           C                         
Coño, all I was thinking is, "What home of the brave?  

          B                   Am
This is a fucking war zone!"
[Outro]
Em             C           B        Am
If you got the balls, then come on, mette mano

Em   C    B             Am
(We       stand for the neighborhood)

Em           C      B        Am
If you got cojones, come on, mette mano

Em   C    B             Am
(We       stand for the neighborhood)

Em             C      B        Am
If you got the balls, come on, mette mano

Em   C    B             Am
(We       stand for the neighborhood)

Em           C      B        Am
If you got cojones, come on, mette mano