Cuban Crime of Passion
๐ต 1286 characters
โฑ๏ธ 3:43 duration
๐ ID: 1382893
๐ Lyrics
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
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
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
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
โฑ๏ธ Synced Lyrics
[00:30.72] Well, now Billy Voltaire was a piano player, up from Miami way
[00:36.93] He used to play in the bars, he could sound like the stars
[00:40.56] Ladies would, pay and pay
[00:43.61] One night, he did wind up, playin' in Havana town
[00:49.96] Nobody knew, least Billy Voltaire, that these were his, final sounds
[00:56.09]
[00:57.87] He met up with Meritta, a dancer in from the Coast
[01:03.74] Half woman, half child, she drove him half wild
[01:07.02] He loved that lady the most
[01:10.22] One night he did find her, in the arms, of Shrimper Dan
[01:16.08] So he, pulled a knife, took poor Danny's life
[01:19.26] And then he turned his own cold hand
[01:21.94]
[01:23.10] It's just a Cuban crime of passion
[01:27.57] Messy and old fashioned
[01:31.89] Yeah, that's what the papers did say
[01:35.73] It's just a Cuban crime of passion
[01:39.81] Anjejo and knives a slashin'
[01:42.74] Yeah, but that's what the people like to read about
[01:46.70] Up in America
[01:50.20] Up in America
[01:53.21]
[02:08.54] Well, now they never found Meritta, some people say she got ill
[02:15.38] Billy Voltaire had no one to claim him, he was buried on pauper's hill
[02:21.61] And no one talks about 'em no more, it happened just a week ago
[02:27.89] But people get by and people get high
[02:30.85] In the tropics, they come and they go
[02:33.53]
[02:34.77] It's just a Cuban crime of passion
[02:39.14] Messy and old fashioned
[02:43.42] Yeah, that's what the papers did say
[02:47.45] It's just a Cuban crime of passion
[02:51.33] Anjejo and knives a slashin'
[02:54.71] But that's what the people like to read about
[02:58.37] Up in America
[03:01.83] Up in America
[03:04.89]
[00:36.93] He used to play in the bars, he could sound like the stars
[00:40.56] Ladies would, pay and pay
[00:43.61] One night, he did wind up, playin' in Havana town
[00:49.96] Nobody knew, least Billy Voltaire, that these were his, final sounds
[00:56.09]
[00:57.87] He met up with Meritta, a dancer in from the Coast
[01:03.74] Half woman, half child, she drove him half wild
[01:07.02] He loved that lady the most
[01:10.22] One night he did find her, in the arms, of Shrimper Dan
[01:16.08] So he, pulled a knife, took poor Danny's life
[01:19.26] And then he turned his own cold hand
[01:21.94]
[01:23.10] It's just a Cuban crime of passion
[01:27.57] Messy and old fashioned
[01:31.89] Yeah, that's what the papers did say
[01:35.73] It's just a Cuban crime of passion
[01:39.81] Anjejo and knives a slashin'
[01:42.74] Yeah, but that's what the people like to read about
[01:46.70] Up in America
[01:50.20] Up in America
[01:53.21]
[02:08.54] Well, now they never found Meritta, some people say she got ill
[02:15.38] Billy Voltaire had no one to claim him, he was buried on pauper's hill
[02:21.61] And no one talks about 'em no more, it happened just a week ago
[02:27.89] But people get by and people get high
[02:30.85] In the tropics, they come and they go
[02:33.53]
[02:34.77] It's just a Cuban crime of passion
[02:39.14] Messy and old fashioned
[02:43.42] Yeah, that's what the papers did say
[02:47.45] It's just a Cuban crime of passion
[02:51.33] Anjejo and knives a slashin'
[02:54.71] But that's what the people like to read about
[02:58.37] Up in America
[03:01.83] Up in America
[03:04.89]