Cuban Crime of Passion
Words and Music by:
Jimmy Buffett and Tom Corcoran
[Intro]
D G A G D
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[Verse 1]
D G D
Well now Billy Voltaire was a piano player up from Miami way
D D
He used to play in the bars, he could sound like the stars
E7 A
the ladies would pay and pay
G D Cadd9 G/B
Then one night he did wind up playin' in Havana town
G D A D
Nobody knew, least Billy Voltaire that these were his final sounds
[Verse 2]
D G D
He met up with Marita, a dancer in from the coast
D D
Half woman, half child, she drove him half wild
E7 A
He loved that lady the most
G D Cadd9 G/B
'Til one night he did find her in the arms of Shrimper Dan
G D
So he pulled a knife, took poor Danny's life
A D
And then he turned his own cold hand
[Chorus]
G
And it's just a Cuban crime of passion
D
Messy and old fashioned
A D
Yeah, that's what the papers did say
D7 G
It's just a Cuban crime of passion,
D
Añejo and knives a slashin'
A
Yeah but that's what the people like to read about
C D C D
Up in America, up in America
[Interlude]
D G A G D
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[Verse 3]
D G D
Well now they never found Marita, some people say she got ill
D
And Billy Voltaire had no one to claim him,
E7 A
he was buried on pauper's hill
G D Cadd9 G/B
And no one talks about him no more, it happened just a week ago
G D
But people get by and people get high
A D
In the tropics they come and they go
[Chorus]
G
And it's just a Cuban crime of passion
D
Messy and old fashioned
A D
Yeah, that's what the papers did say
D7 G
It's just a Cuban crime of passion
D
Añejo and knives a slashin'
A
Yeah but that's what the people like to read about
C D C D
Up in America, up in America
[Outro]
D G A G D
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B|--7-7--7--7--7-|--8-8--8-8---12---12---|-12-10---10-10---8---8---|--8-7--7-7---|
G|---------------|-----------------------|-------------------------|-------------|
D|---------------|-----------------------|-------------------------|-------------| x2
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E|---------------|-----------------------|-------------------------|-------------|Cuban Crime Of Passion chords and lyrics
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Cuban Crime of Passion Words and Music by: Jimmy Buffett and Tom Corcoran [Verse 1] [Verse 2] [Chorus] [Verse 3] [Chorus]
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