Salvador   I was born in puerto rico   We came here when I was a child   Before I reached the age of sixteen   I was running with the gang and we were wild      He keeps looking but he don't recognize me.   Some guy from lexington or park   Red beans and rice from kitchen windows   Supper-time and the barrio is dark.      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 I will.      Sal & the vampires   I was born in puerto rico   And my blood is taino   Spanish caribbean my soul      Salvador   We came here wearing summer clothes in winter   Hearts of sunshine in the cold   Your family rented this apartment   You'd watch the street lamps from your perch   In the sacramental hour 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.      Sal & the vampires   I was born in puerto rico   Came here when I was a child.      Salvador   Small change and sunlight, then I left these streets for good.   My days as short as they were wild.      Carlos apache   I'm carlos apache      Angel soto   Angel soto      Frenchy cordero   Frenchy cordero      Babu charlie cruz   Babu charlie cruz      Salvador   Your features blurred in every grainy photo   And fading headline of the daily news      Wiltwyck 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.      Chorus   I was born in puerto rico   I was born in puerto rico      I was born in puerto rico   I was born in puerto rico   I was born in puerto rico   I was born in puerto rico   I was born in puerto rico   I was born in puerto rico      Lazarus   Yo nací en puerto rico   Yo nací en puerto rico   Mi corazón es puerto rico   Mi alma es puerto rico            Lead vocal, acoustic guitar-paul simon   Coro vocal-danny rivera   Background vocal-ray de la paz   Background vocal-nestor sanchez   Piano, synthesizer-oscar hernandez   Tres, plenaro-nelson gonzalez   Cuatro-edgardo miranda   Guitar-vincent nguini   Bass-john beal   Drums-robby ameen   Bongos, cymbal-bobby allende   Timbales, congas, cua-marc quinones   Trumpet-1st solo-david rodriguez   Trumpet-2nd solo-ray vega   Viola-juliet hafner   Flute-oriente lopez   French horn-stewart rose   Oboe-marcia butler      Orchestration-stanley silverman