[Intro: dembow drops in, spoken male, tour guide voice] Welcome to Old San Juan Stay together Watch the cobblestones Everything I tell you is true [Verse 1] Ship pulls in at nine, three thousand people in the same white hat I hold my yellow flag up, follow me, mi gente, careful of the cat These blue stones under your feet, I tell them, fell from heaven in a storm And one man built El Morro with a soup spoon on the day that I was born [Pre-Chorus] And they're taking pictures And they're writing it down I'm the most believed man In the oldest part of town [Chorus: group answers] Local legend (legend) Every word I tell you is the truth, allegedly Local legend (legend) Take a picture, write it down, and tip me generously Ask anybody on the island who you gotta see They'll tell you Javi, he's a legend (allegedly) [Verse 2] Every cat around the fort is on the payroll of the king of Spain They get a pension paid in sardines, so don't pet them, they're on duty in the rain My uncle made the first pina colada in that pink house with a blender and a prayer And the bar across the street says they did, and I tell my people, don't go there But there's a lady in the back in a straw hat writing down every word I say Three tours in a row, she doesn't laugh, she doesn't tip, she doesn't look away [Pre-Chorus] And they're taking pictures And she's writing it down I'm the most believed man In the oldest part of town [Chorus: group answers] Local legend (legend) Every word I tell you is the truth, allegedly Local legend (legend) Take a picture, write it down, and tip me generously Ask anybody on the island who you gotta see They'll tell you Javi, he's a legend (allegedly) [Bridge: dembow keeps rolling low, spoken male] Third tour End of the wall She walks right up [Spoken female] Javi, I write guidebooks Every word you said is wrong [Spoken male] Okay [Spoken female] I'm putting all of it in [Verse 3: full beat returns] Six months later there's her guidebook on every cruise ship in the bay Page forty one, local legend says, there's my soup spoon, there's my cats on pay Now the line goes round the plaza, and my tips are triple, and my mother's got a new roof And the cats all got a raise, and nobody is asking me for proof [Stop: beat cuts out, spoken male] Then a new guy with a red flag Tells his group One man built El Morro with a spoon Hey That's my lie And it was a soup spoon [Final Chorus: group answers] Local legend (legend) Every word I tell you is the truth, allegedly Local legend (legend) Page forty one, go look it up, it's history Ask anybody on the island who you gotta see They'll tell you Javi, he's a legend (allegedly) [Outro: dembow fades, spoken male, tour guide voice] Stay together See that cat Lieutenant (Allegedly)
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