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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
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Chords: E, A, D, G, B, E7, A7, C