Jimmy Buffett – Cuban Crime Of Passion (Guitar Intro)

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[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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Well now Billy Voltaire was a piano player up from Miami way

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He used to play in the bars, he could sound like the stars

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the ladies would pay and pay

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Then one night he did wind up playin' in Havana town

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Nobody knew, least Billy Voltaire that these were his final sounds
[Verse 2]
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He met up with Marita, a dancer in from the coast

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Half woman, half child, she drove him half wild

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He loved that lady the most

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'Til one night he did find her in the arms of Shrimper Dan

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So he  pulled a knife, took poor Danny's life

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And then he turned his own cold hand
[Chorus]
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And it's just a Cuban crime of passion

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Messy and old fashioned

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    Yeah, that's what the papers did say

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  It's just a Cuban crime of passion,

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Añejo and knives a slashin'

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Yeah but that's what the people like to read about

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 Up in America, up in America

[Interlude]
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[Verse 3]
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Well now they never found Marita, some people say she got ill

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And Billy Voltaire had no one to claim him,

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he was buried on pauper's hill

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And no one talks about him no more, it happened just a week ago

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But people get by and people get high

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In the tropics they come and they go
[Chorus]
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And it's just a Cuban crime of passion

D
Messy and old fashioned

A                                    D
    Yeah, that's what the papers did say

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  It's just a Cuban crime of passion

  D
Añejo and knives a slashin'

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Yeah but that's what the people like to read about

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  Up in America,  up in America

[Outro]
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