The Tropics-Bertie Higgins

[ti:The Tropics] [ar:Bertie Higgins] [al:Dancing in the Tradewinds] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Tropics - Bertie Higgins (贝蒂.希金斯) [00:18.63]So you've come to the Tropics [00:21.20]And heard all you had to do [00:24.62]Was sit in the shade of a coconut glade [00:27.82]The pesos rolling to you [00:31.56]They told you that at the border [00:34.34]But get your directions straight [00:38.23]Hear what it did to another kid [00:41.02]Before you decide your fate [00:44.60]I started out to be honest [00:47.42]Put everything on the square [00:50.50]But a boy can't fool with the Golden Rule [00:53.84]With a crowd that won't play fair [00:57.47]It was a case of winning in a dirty race [01:00.59]Or dying with a losing hand [01:04.15]My only hope so I could hold [01:06.93]With steal a horse of another man [01:10.41]The Tropics they're worse than the habit [01:13.45]The burning blazing sun [01:17.21]You break away and swear you'll stay [01:20.50]The Tropics call and back you come [01:27.09]I pulled a deal down in Brazil [01:29.71]In an Inca silver mine [01:33.50]Before they found it was salted ground [01:36.46]I was safe in Argentine [01:40.22]I sell a lot to pirate's gold [01:42.91]'Round Cuba into the Keys [01:46.09]I gave my soul in pirate's gold [01:49.43]Trying to buy myself free [01:52.83]They called me a soldier of fortune [01:55.76]But I sold myself like a whore [01:59.09]Peddling booze through the Santa Cruz [02:02.58]And Winchester 44's [02:05.94]Made unafraid by my drunken aid [02:09.06]The bastards came roaring down [02:12.51]And left in a shivering blazing mass [02:15.59]A tiny border town [02:19.09]The Tropics they're worse than the habit [02:22.60]The burning blazing sun [02:25.82]You break away and swear you'll stay [02:29.17]The Tropics call and back you come [02:50.48]I was next in charge of a smuggler's barge [02:53.12]In the Straits of Yucatan [02:56.16]But she sunk in a hole off Mexico [02:59.74]One night in a hurricane [03:03.37]I got to shore on a broken oar [03:06.30]In the filthy shrieking dark [03:09.36]And the other two of the good ship's crew [03:12.26]Became a banquet for the shark [03:16.52]On a fiery hot flea ridden cot [03:19.27]I was dying with the yellow jack [03:22.65]Alone in the sun and damn near done [03:25.67]She found me and pulled me back [03:29.13]She came like the Virgin Maria [03:32.29]And opened my fevered eyes [03:36.05]Upon me shone a brand new dawn [03:38.89]As I turned my face to the sky [03:42.28]The Tropics they're worse than the habit [03:45.37]The burning blazing sun [03:49.11]You break away and swear you'll stay [03:52.35]The Tropics call and back you come [04:02.02]There was pride and grace in her brown young face [04:04.98]For hers was the blood of kings [04:08.50]In her eyes shone the glory of empires gone [04:12.32]She was wearing the devil's ring [04:15.21]You see these punctures in my arm [04:18.46]You know what they mean [04:21.75]They were left right there by my lady fair [04:25.04]Ms **** [04:29.92]I was dealt the eights and aces [04:32.84]Some call the dead man's hand [04:36.43]God knows I'm not the one to blame [04:39.13]For I'm only a mortal man [04:42.77]Whatever you play whatever the way [04:45.78]For stakes that are large or small [04:49.12]The claws of the tropics will gather your pile [04:52.21]The dealer gets it all [04:55.75]The Tropics they're worse than the habit [04:58.90]The burning blazing sun [05:02.43]You break away and swear you'll stay [05:05.92]The Tropics call and back you come [05:12.14]The Tropics they're worse than the habit [05:15.26]The burning blazing sun [05:18.78]You break away and swear you'll stay [05:22.19]The Tropics call and back you come