The Corner by neil smith (c) (p) 2011 neil smith entertainment

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I couldn't find a job down in oaxaca mexico
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And my mamacita held my babies, begged me not to go
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But life dealt me a losin hand and an open stretch of road
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So I paid the coyote what he asked and carried cross his load

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And I don't want to live here in a land that's not my home

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But I've got to feed my children, and I'm sorry if that's wrong

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And you know that you'd do the same no matter what's the law

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If you had to choose between survival and a wall


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And I look for work out on the corner every day

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Sometimes 15 hours at a time

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I see you looking at me wishing that id go away

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and I cant blame you for trying to keep what's yours

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Please don't blame me For surviving on what's not mine

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And I've always got one eye over my shoulder

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Wonderin if today's the day they'll send me right back home

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And for a moment I'll see my sweet chica and hold her

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And kiss my babies fore I sneak right back across the border

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I'm sorry if that bothers you

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But what else can I do?

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And I look for work out on the corner every day

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Sometimes 15 hours at a time

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I hear you screaming at your government to make me go away

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and I surely cannot blame you for trying to keep what's yours

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Please don't blame me For surviving on what's not mine

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Please don't blame me For surviving on what's not mine

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