You would understand           Alex Reyes

E          A       F#  x4

 

Listen Man

E                                      F#m    

Arroz con pollo football jamboree

G#m                          A

Take a Chiva bus to Napoli

 

Margarita and pedero miguel

Flags wave proudly up on admin hill

Balboa yatch club on a Friday night

Commisary baggers wear red and white

Someone painted Balboas head

Chinese plums and Torijos is dead

B                                       A

PCC icecream   Ron cortez

B                              A

Stevens circle and micha bread

B                           A

Toucans ras transisthmican

E                                 F#m

Noriega surely was a crazy man

 

Causeway isla grande and gago clause

Palm bowl pepitos and the governors house

Cristobal high students ring their bell

Vultures soaring over Sosa hill

F#                              A        E        B             A                 E

If you knew what I know  You would understand  I’m a Zonian

You would understand just what I am   I’m a Zonian

You would understand  I’m a Zonian

You would understand  I’m a Zonian

 

J street saca bus Compana hill

Spinning club tomales and a soda mil

Ositos and a half pack of cigarettes

Balboa rams Cristobal tigers Albrook jets

Club house hamburgers Cocoli brige

Ahi chombo and Gamboa ridge

Pizza Italia  Contractors hill

Electrical division will pick up the bill

Riots and flag burning way back when

I was raised on channels 8 and 10

The shrine bowl Diablo Heights

Tarpon club ceviche and mosquito bites

 

Balboa bull dogs beat red machine

Swing by to check out the Cardenas scene

Dredging division and housing too

Have you ever tried mondongo and ñeque stew?

 

If you knew what I know  You would understand  I’m a Zonian

You would understand just what I am   I’m a Zonian

You would understand  I’m a Zonian

You would understand  I’m a Zonian

 

Pastelitos and carnaval

Bug spray trucks will be the death of us all

Roseapples san cocho and the french cut

Devils beach and v-land when the surf is up

Balboa theather cuati mundi

A Cuna selling molas by a mahogany tree

Bushmaster and fer-de-lance

June bugs killer bees and Fire ants

 

Rio Teta, Pal Mar                to catch some sun

A nickels worth of Methas           at the train station

Macaws pipa fria, and cayuco race

Raspados and mangos stick to your face

San Blas island the BHS plaque

Panama railroad barely stay on the tracks

Gatun yacht club and Guardia

Empanadas guinnups and a bag of Mafa

 

 

If you knew what I know  You would understand  I’m a Zonian

You would understand just what I am   I’m a Zonian

You would understand  I’m a Zonian

You would understand  I’m a Zonian

 

Balboa road greasy spoon and the slide

Drinking panamas Watching ships go by

Star and herald Forth of July avenue

Rainbow city high school and summit zoo

Ocelots and pumas at fastlich park

Don’t go to Colon city after dark

La Boca peninsula paleta man

Los Ches Cocosolo and the Ancon Inn

Coronado condos and Gatun Lake

Everybodies back for Christmas break

Vente quatro Horas Platanitos

Chorera autopista diablitos

 

Miraflores locks and Bohia majon

Chicharonas and Yanqui go home

Lazy hammocks and a Roach in the sink

Rum and coke is the national drink.

 

If you knew what I know You would understand  I’m a Zonian

You would understand just what I am   I’m a Zonian

You would understand  I’m a Zonian

You would understand  I’m a Zonian