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Whoa
Whoa!
Reeba (yeah)
Well now Billy Voltaire was a piano player
Up from Miami way
Used to play in the bars
Hell he could sound like the stars
Ladies, they pay and pay
One night he did wind up playin' in Havana town
Nobody there least Billy Voltaire
That these were his final sounds
When 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
It's just a Cuban crime of passion
Messy and old fashioned
Yeah, that's what the paper did say
It's just a Cuban crime of passion
Nadas and jeho and knives a slashin'
So that's what the people like to read about
Up in America, up in America (oh yeah)
Well now they never found Meritta
Well some people say she got ill
And Billy Voltaire had no one to claim him
He was buried on pauper's hill
And no one talks about 'em no more
You see it happened just a week ago
But people get by and people get high
In the tropics they just come and they go
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
Nadas and jeho and knives a slashin'
But that's what the people like to read about
Up in America, up in America
Yeah, up in America
Way, up in America
Way up there in America
Up there in America
Way up there in America
All up there in America
"Thank you very much, alright"
"Whoa"
"Alright"
"Whoa, thank you, God"
"We had such a good time"
"Here in favourite of city last night, but eh"
"Some of us got a little bit overserved"
"And far, fair here"
"This is a little song that em"
"Comes to us from a"
"An older album I did way back when"
"A1-A was the name of the band"
"And to some of that uh"
"One of the many things"
"I've seen inner end of our lyrics"
"That concern natural disasters, I don't know why"
"But eh, this is one that"
"That concerns hurricanes down around eh"
"The golf of Mexico and the around the Atlantic Ocean"
"So did that strange mystique that people have you know?"
"About eh, if you goin' to get blown away"
"You might as well be blown away, you know?"
"We'll do this tonight for anybody up here"
"That might have been transplanted from Florida you know?"
"And eh, just remember that we're all here in February"
"What does it get here? minus 19? great oh"
"This is called time to reason with hurricane season"