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Jimmy Buffett - Cuban Crime Of Passion Chords

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Cuban Crime Of Passion Chords

(ver. 1)
Jimmy Buffett
[Intro]

D    G    D   A   G   D


[Verse]

         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                A7
Ladies would pay and pay
   G               D        C           G
One night he did wind up playin' in Havana town
 D              D                         A                     D
Nobody knew, least Billy Voltaire that these were his final sounds


[Verse]

      D                   G                  D
He met up with Meritta, a dancer in from the Coast
     D                      D
Half woman, half child, she drove him half wild
    E7                  A7
He loved that lady the most
    G                   D           C             G
One night he did find her in the arms of Shrimper Dan
      D                 D
So he pulled a knife, took poor Danny's life
           A                    D
And then he turned his own cold hand


[Chorus]

     D            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
              G
It's just a Cuban crime of passion
  D
Anjejo and knives a slashin'
      A                                  A      C
Yeah but that's what the people like to read about
 A          C            D
Up in America, up in America


[Instrumental]

D  G(alt) D(alt) A(alt) G(alt)  D(alt2)


[Verse]

          D                       G                        D
Well now they never found Meritta, some people say she got ill
      D               D
Billy Voltaire had no one to claim him,
       E7                  A7
he was buried on pauper's hill
       G           D                   C                    G
And no one talks about 'em no more, it happened just a week ago
      D                 D
But people get by and people get high
 A                                D
In the tropics they come and they go


[Chorus]

     D            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
              G
It's just a Cuban crime of passion
  D
Anjejo and knives a slashin'
      A                                  A      C
Yeah but that's what the people like to read about
 A          C            D
Up in America, up in America
            
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