The Vampires Lyrics - Paul Simon

HERNANDEZ 

Well, did you bring me my money, 

My cab fare 

My new shoes? 

I got expenses, you know 

Where's my weekly dues? 

SAL 

I ain't giving you my fucking money. 

HERNANDEZ 

Oye, mother fucker, where's this jibaro from? 

You go when I say. 

I call, you come. 

You know it takes a strong man to survive. 

It ain't no accident that you're still alive. 

HERNANDEZ & THE VAMPIRES 

We stand for the neighborhood. 

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HERNANDEZ 

He still lives with his mami, but he sneaks down, 

A coolie in the shadow of the playground 

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

SAL 

Well, yeah, if I got to. 

HERNANDEZ 

Oh you got to. Come here, I want to show you something. 

This is the cave of the Vampires, 

Count Dracula's castle, 

The very sight could turn a white man grey. 

Made in the shade, use my umbrella 

Black like the night we fly in. 

That blade is all you need to keep the dogs away. 

So you want to be a vampire, man! That's good. 

We always looking for young blood in the neighborhood now. 

Carlos Apache collects the dues, 

So you bring us something that we can use. 

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HERNANDEZ & THE VAMPIRES 

If you got the balls, then come on, mette mano, 

If you got the balls, then come on, mette mano. 

HERNANDEZ 

Frenchy Cordego goes down to Hell's Kitchen 

to sell the Irish some weed. 

So this Paddy boys mother on the stoop starts bitchin' 

'Bout spics is a mongrel breed. 

Now here comes her son 

he looks like a ton of corned beef 

Floating in beer. 

he says "Fucking Puerto Rican dope-dealing punk, 

Get your shit brown ass out of here." 

HERNANDEZ & THE VAMPIRES 

"Fucking Puerto Rican dope-dealing punk, 

get your shit brown ass out of here." 

We stand for the neighborhood. 

HERNANDEZ 

So the shanty-town Irish they kicked his ass good. 

Fractured his collar bone 

Co'o, all I was thinking is "What home of the brave? 

This a fucking war zone." 

HERNANDEZ & THE VAMPIRES 

If you got the balls, then come on, mette mano. 

We stand for the neighborhood. 

If you got cojones, come on, mette mano. 

We stand for the neighborhood. 

If you got the balls, then come on, mette mano. 

We stand for the neighborhood. 

If you got the cojones, come on, mette mano.