Tonalidad: D major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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See the man by the asphalt truck
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On a hot summer day in L .A.
Down the street by the big orange trees
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Where the Latino boys and girls play
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He's raking the tar like
he's frosting a cake
Gm
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And he's doing the best job he can
Juan Romero,
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a quiet and hard -working man
At ten years of age, from a Mexican state
Gm
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He crossed over the border and stayed
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His pride would fall every time he was called Taco Bender,
Wetback Jose
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He was seventeen when
he got his first job
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As a busboy in a big hotel
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Juan Romero brought praise to
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the rich clientele
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Sometimes he would think
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of his Mexican home
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D
In the pictures it hung on the wall
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The Kennedys right next
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to Jesus and Mary
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With rosary beads by their maws
One day in June
Someone told him the news
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Bobby Kennedy was in the hall
He made sure that he'd
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Be the one who would bring him his dinner
And he got the call
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He knocked on the door,
and he walked in the room
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There was Bobby, and he shook his head
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Juan Romero says he nev
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er felt more like a man
The following night, from the kitchen
Gm
he heard the great vic tory
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A
D
whistles an d cheers.
He felt such hope, at that moment it seemed
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nothing could make his dreams disappear.
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While waiting at the service door
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to see his Catholic hero come in
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Juan Romero felt the heat
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of the shots on his skin
The great man lay on the concrete floor
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Gm
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As a pool of dark blood ran
One took rosary beads from his pocket
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And put them in Bobby's hands
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In his busboy coat, so white and clean
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And his eyes set with restraint
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Juan Romero kneeling,
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he looked like a saint
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Sometimes he would think
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of his Mexican home
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D
In the pictures that hung on the wall
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But Kennedy's right next
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to Jesus and Mary
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D
With rosary beads by the mall
Now the years have passed,
his life is good
Gm
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D
With a family and his own home
He knows that Bobby would be proud
Respect stone by stone
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And though he never talks of that night
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D
One regret he's always held
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Juan Romero wishes he took
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those bullets himself
See the man by the asphalt truck
G
D
On a hot summer day in L .A.
Down the street,
by the big orange trees
A
Where the Latino boys and girls play
D
He's raking the tire like
he's frosting a cake
G
D
And he's doing the best job he can
Juan Romero,
A
D
a quiet and hard -working man
A
D
Juan Romero, a quiet and dignified man
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