《The Tropics》歌词

歌曲： The Tropics

所属专辑：Dancing in the Tradewinds

歌手： Bertie Higgins

时长： 05:39

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The Tropics - Bertie Higgins[00:00:00]

So you've come to the Tropics[00:00:18]

And heard all you had to do[00:00:21]

Was sit in the shade of a coconut glade[00:00:24]

The pesos rolling to you[00:00:27]

They told you that at the border[00:00:31]

But get your directions straight[00:00:34]

Hear what it did to another kid[00:00:38]

Before you decide your fate[00:00:41]

I started out to be honest[00:00:44]

Put everything on the square[00:00:47]

But a boy can't fool with the Golden Rule[00:00:50]

With a crowd that won't play fair[00:00:53]

It was a case of winning in a dirty race[00:00:57]

Or dying with a losing hand[00:01:00]

My only hope so I could hold[00:01:04]

With steal a horse of another man[00:01:06]

The Tropics they're worse than the habit[00:01:10]

The burning blazing sun[00:01:13]

You break away and swear you'll stay[00:01:17]

The Tropics call and back you come[00:01:20]

I pulled a deal down in Brazil[00:01:27]

In an Inca silver mine[00:01:29]

Before they found it was salted ground[00:01:33]

I was safe in Argentine[00:01:36]

I sell a lot to pirate's gold[00:01:40]

'Round Cuba into the Keys[00:01:42]

I gave my soul in pirate's gold[00:01:46]

Trying to buy myself free[00:01:49]

They called me a soldier of fortune[00:01:52]

But I sold myself like a whore[00:01:55]

Peddling booze through the Santa Cruz[00:01:59]

And Winchester 44's[00:02:02]

Made unafraid by my drunken aid[00:02:05]

The bastards came roaring down[00:02:09]

And left in a shivering blazing mass[00:02:12]

A tiny border town[00:02:15]

The Tropics they're worse than the habit[00:02:19]

The burning blazing sun[00:02:22]

You break away and swear you'll stay[00:02:25]

The Tropics call and back you come[00:02:29]

I was next in charge of a smuggler's barge[00:02:50]

In the Straits of Yucatan[00:02:53]

But she sunk in a hole off Mexico[00:02:56]

One night in a hurricane[00:02:59]

I got to shore on a broken oar[00:03:03]

In the filthy shrieking dark[00:03:06]

And the other two of the good ship's crew[00:03:09]

Became a banquet for the shark[00:03:12]

On a fiery hot flea ridden cot[00:03:16]

I was dying with the yellow jack[00:03:19]

Alone in the sun and damn near done[00:03:22]

She found me and pulled me back[00:03:25]

She came like the Virgin Maria[00:03:29]

And opened my fevered eyes[00:03:32]

Upon me shone a brand new dawn[00:03:36]

As I turned my face to the sky[00:03:38]

The Tropics they're worse than the habit[00:03:42]

The burning blazing sun[00:03:45]

You break away and swear you'll stay[00:03:49]

The Tropics call and back you come[00:03:52]

There was pride and grace in her brown young face[00:04:02]

For hers was the blood of kings[00:04:04]

In her eyes shone the glory of empires gone[00:04:08]

She was wearing the devil's ring[00:04:12]

You see these punctures in my arm[00:04:15]

You know what they mean[00:04:18]

They were left right there by my lady fair[00:04:21]

Ms Morphine[00:04:25]

I was dealt the eights and aces[00:04:29]

Some call the dead man's hand[00:04:32]

God knows I'm not the one to blame[00:04:36]

For I'm only a mortal man[00:04:39]

Whatever you play whatever the way[00:04:42]

For stakes that are large or small[00:04:45]

The claws of the tropics will gather your pile[00:04:49]

The dealer gets it all[00:04:52]

The Tropics they're worse than the habit[00:04:55]

The burning blazing sun[00:04:58]

You break away and swear you'll stay[00:05:02]

The Tropics call and back you come[00:05:05]

The Tropics they're worse than the habit[00:05:12]

The burning blazing sun[00:05:15]

You break away and swear you'll stay[00:05:18]

The Tropics call and back you come[00:05:22]