Cuban Crime Of Passion Lyrics - A White Sport Coat And A Pink Crustacean - Jimmy Buffett

By: Jimmy Buffett, Tom Corcoran 

1973 

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 

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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 

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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