Cuban Crime of Passion - Jimmy Buffett, Tom Corcoran
    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

    He met up with Meritta, a dancer in from the Coast
    Half woman, half child, she 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

    Chorus:
    And 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

    Chorus:
    And 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

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