took a walk to the corner store just to buy a loaf of bread and a box of s mores up pulled a guy in a yellow van shiny gold badge flashing in his hand he said alright all you mojados down here i want you all to hit the floor i got one thing to ask you and nothing more so answer in english if you can where were ya born man huh where was i born that s right i said where were ya born hey are you one of those dudes who do horoscopes man hey i m a cancer with a bad moon rising look here el vago watch my lips where were ya born i was born in east la man i was born in east la oh yeah you were born in east la let s see your green card huh green card i m from east la  alright then who s president of the united states oh that s easy man that guy that used to be on death valley days john wayne alright let s go come on next thing i know i m in a foreign land people talkin so fast i couldn t understand there was nobody there to lend a helping hand i was cold it was dark where is a burger stand i want to go back to east la i wish i was back in east la i don t belong here in downtown tj cause i was born in east la ole i crawled under barbed wire swam across a stream rode in six different trucks packed like a sardine walked all day in the burning sun now i know what it s like to be born to run up ahead was the promised land shining like a star just beyond my hand all i could see was a golden door i looked up a sign said five zillion sold and i was back in east la yes i was back in east la you know i m never gonna stray cause i was born in east la oral i m a low rider vato from east la cudate east la oral this ain t no datsun it s a chevrolet cruise all day what i say east la oral soto street brooklyn avenue city terrace whittier boulevard oral wilshire i said how do you get to wilshire what am i lost or what i m a lowrider vato from a far away i was born i was born in east la how to say east la don t delay cruise all day in east la oral i m from east la what i say east la east la 