Cuban Crime Of Passion chords by Jimmy Buffett

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: D MajorD

Difficulty: Novice

INTRO CHORDS:

G+G (alt)  x-x-0-7-8-7
D MajorD (alt)  x-x-0-11-10-10
A augmentedA (alt)  x-x-0-9-10-9
D MajorD (alt 2) x-x-0-7-7-5


Intro:

D MajorD  G+G  D MajorD  A augmentedA  G+G  D MajorD

Verse:

     D MajorD                 G+G       D MajorD
Well now Billy Voltaire was a piano player up from Miami way
      D MajorD             D MajorD
He used to play in the bars, he could sound like the stars
 E7E7        A7A7
Ladies would pay and pay
  G+G        D MajorD    C majorC      G+G
One night he did wind up playin' in Havana town
 D MajorD       D MajorD             A augmentedA           D MajorD
Nobody knew, least Billy Voltaire that these were his final sounds


Verse:

   D MajorD          G+G         D MajorD
He met up with Meritta, a dancer in from the Coast
   D MajorD           D MajorD
Half woman, half child, she drove him half wild
  E7E7         A7A7
He loved that lady the most
  G+G          D MajorD      C majorC       G+G
One night he did find her in the arms of Shrimper Dan
   D MajorD         D MajorD
So he pulled a knife, took poor Danny's life
      A augmentedA          D MajorD
And then he turned his own cold hand


Chorus:

   D MajorD      G+G
And it's just a Cuban crime of passion
  D MajorD
Messy and old fashioned
    A augmentedA             D MajorD
Yeah, that's what the papers did say
       G+G
It's just a Cuban crime of passion
 D MajorD
Anjejo and knives a slashin'
   A augmentedA                 A augmentedA   C majorC
Yeah but that's what the people like to read about
 A augmentedA     C majorC      D MajorD
Up in America, up in America

Instrumental:

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


Verse:

     D MajorD            G+G            D MajorD
Well now they never found Meritta, some people say she got ill
   D MajorD        D MajorD
Billy Voltaire had no one to claim him,
    E7E7         A7A7
he was buried on pauper's hill
    G+G      D MajorD          C majorC          G+G
And no one talks about 'em no more, it happened just a week ago
   D MajorD         D MajorD
But people get by and people get high
 A augmentedA                D MajorD
In the tropics they come and they go


Chorus:

   D MajorD      G+G
And it's just a Cuban crime of passion
  D MajorD
Messy and old fashioned
    A augmentedA             D MajorD
Yeah, that's what the papers did say
       G+G
It's just a Cuban crime of passion
 D MajorD
Anjejo and knives a slashin'
   A augmentedA                 A augmentedA   C majorC
Yeah but that's what the people like to read about
 A augmentedA     C majorC      D MajorD
Up in America, up in America