Acordes de The Line
Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen

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Tonalidad: C major
Verse 1
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I got my discharge
from Fort Irwin
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Took a place on the San Diego county line
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Felt funny bein' a civilian again
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It'd been some time
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My wife had died a year ago
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I was still tryin' to find
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my way back whole
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Went to work for the INS on
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the line
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With the California Border Patrol
Verse 2
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Bobby Ramirez was a ten-
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year veteran
We became friends
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His family was from Guanajuato
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So the job it was different for him
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He said' "They risk death in the
deserts and mountains"
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Pay all they got to the smugglers rings,
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We send 'em home and they
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come right back again
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Carl, hunger is a powerful thing."
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Verse 3
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Well I was good at doin'
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what I was told
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Kept my uniform pressed and clean
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At night I chased their shadows
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Through the arroyos and ravines
Verse 4
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Drug runners,
farmers with their families,
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Young women with little
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children by their sides
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Come night we'd wait
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out in the canyons
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And try to keep 'em from
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crossin' the line
Verse 5
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Well the first time that I saw her
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She was in the holdin' pen
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Our eyes met and she looked away
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Then she looked back again
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Her hair was black as coal
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Her eyes reminded me
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of what I'd lost
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She had a young child cryin' in her arms
And I asked, "Senora,
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is there anything I can do"
Verse 6
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There's a bar in Tijuana
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Where me and Bobby
drink alongside
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The same people we'd
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sent back the day before
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We met there she said
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her name was Louisa
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She was from sonora and had just
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come north
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We danced and I held her in my arms
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And I knew what I would do
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She said she had some family
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in Madera county
If she, her child and her young
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er brother could just get through
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At night they come across
the levy
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In the searchlights dusty glow
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We'd rush 'em in our Broncos
And force 'em back down
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into the river below
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She climbed into my truck
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She leaned towards me and we kissed
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As we drove her brothers
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shirt slipped open
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And I saw the tape across his chest
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Verse 8
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We were just about on the highway
When Bobby's jeep come
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up in the dust on my right
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I pulled over and let my
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engine run
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And stepped out into his lights
I felt myself movin'
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Felt my gun restin'
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'neath my hand
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We stood there starin' at each other
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As off through the arroyo she ran
Verse 9
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Bobby Ramirez he never said nothin'
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Six months later I left the line
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I drifted to the central valley
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And took what work I could find
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At night I searched the local
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bars
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And the migrant towns
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Lookin' for my Louisa
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With the black hair fallin'
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