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Cuban Crime of Passion
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Jimmy Buffett
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By: Jimmy Buffett, Tom Corcoran
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1973
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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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Ladies would pay and pay
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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
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He met up with Meritta, 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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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
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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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Anjejo 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
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Well now they never found Meritta, some people say she got ill
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Billy Voltaire had no one to claim him, he was buried on pauper's hill
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And no one talks about 'em 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
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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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Anjejo and knives a slashin'
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But that's what the people like to read about
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Up in America, up in America
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