Cuban Crime Of Passion - Jimmy Buffett

Cuban Crime Of Passion - Jimmy Buffett
Well now Billy Voltaire was a
Piano player up from Miami way
He used to play in the bars
He could sound like the stars
Ladies would pay and pay
One night he did wind up playin' in Havana town
Nobody knew least Billy Voltaire
That these were his final sounds
'Cause he met up with Meritta
A dancer in from the coast
Half woman half child
She's drove him half wild
He loved that lady the most
One night he did find her
In the arms of Shrimper Dan
So he pulled a knife took poor Danny's life
And then he turned his own cold hand
It's just a Cuban crime of passion
Messy and old fashioned
Yeah that's what the papers did say
It's just a Cuban crime of passion
Anjejo and knives a slashin'
Yeah but that's what the people like to read about
Up in America up in America
Well now they never found Meritta
Some people say she got ill
Billy Voltaire had no one to claim him
He was buried on Pauper's Hill
And no one talks about 'em no more
It happened just a week ago
But people get by and people
Get high in the tropics they come and they go
It's just a Cuban crime of passion
Messy and old fashioned
Yeah that's what the papers did say
It's just a Cuban crime of passion
Anjejo and knives a slashin'
But that's what the people like to read about
Up in America up in America