Cuban Crime Of Passion chords by Jimmy Buffett

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: D

Difficulty: Novice

INTRO CHORDS:

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



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