San Ysidro is a district in the south of San Diego. immediately north of the U.S.-Mexico border. For many migrants it is literally the promised land toward which they have flung their impoverished selves in hope of a better life. Many, resources exhausted, end up in the tin and cardboard shanty towns that dot Tijuana .
This song, which I wrote while staying between Tijuana and Ensenada, is for them.
credits
from Occupassionata,
track released November 9, 2012
San Ysidro/ Star
Acoustic Guitars/ Star
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