The Tropics-Bertie Higgins

[ti:The Tropics] [ar:Bertie Higgins] [al:Let's Sail Away to Key Largo] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.68]The Tropics - Bertie Higgins [00:01.38]Composed by：Higgins Elbert Joseph [00:18.51]So you've come to the tropics [00:21.19]And heard all you had to do [00:24.80]Was sit in the shade of a coconut glade [00:27.73]Well the pesos rolling to you [00:31.43]They told you that at the border [00:34.04]But get your directions straight [00:38.09]Hear what it did to another kid [00:41.05]Before you decide your fate [00:44.68]I started out to be honest [00:47.64]Put everything on the square [00:50.53]But a boy can't fool with the golden rule [00:53.88]With a crowd that won't play fair [00:57.03]It was a case of winning in a dirty race [01:00.68]Or dying with a losing hand [01:04.26]My only hope so I get cope [01:06.94]Steal a horse of another man [01:10.50]The tropics they're worse than the habit [01:14.21]The burning blazing sun [01:17.21]You break away and swear you'll stay [01:20.75]The tropics call back you come [01:26.82]I pulled a deal down in Brazil [01:29.65]In an Inca silver mine [01:33.43]Before they found it was salted ground [01:36.34]I was safe in Argentine [01:40.05]I sail a Lord a pirate's gold [01:42.78]'Round Cuba into the keys [01:46.53]But I gave my soul in pirate's gold [01:49.48]Trying to buy myself free [01:52.83]They called me a soldier of fortune [01:55.80]But I sold myself like a W***e [01:59.88]Peddling booze through the Santa Cruz [02:02.79]And Winchester 44's [02:06.26]Made unafraid by my drunken aid [02:09.08]The bastards came roaring down [02:12.15]And left in a shivering blazing mass [02:15.59]A tiny border town [02:18.94]The tropics they're worse than the habit [02:22.66]The burning blazing sun [02:25.88]Break away and swear you'll stay [02:28.95]The tropics call back you come [02:50.27]Was next in charge of a smuggler's barge [02:53.04]In the straits of Yucatan [02:56.41]But she sunk in a hole off Mexico [02:59.61]One night in a hurricane [03:03.24]I got to shore on a broken oar [03:06.07]In the filthy shrieking dark [03:09.94]And the other two of the good ship's crew [03:12.36]Became a banquet for the shark [03:16.48]On a fiery hot flea ridden cot [03:19.18]I was dying with the yellow jack [03:22.74]Alone in the sun and d**n near done [03:25.76]She found me and pulled me back [03:28.98]She came like the Virgin Maria [03:32.13]And opened my fevered eyes [03:36.01]Upon me shone a brand new dawn [03:38.68]As I turned my face to the sky [03:42.32]The tropics they're worse than habit [03:45.69]The burning blazing sun [03:49.20]Break away and swear you'll stay [03:52.33]The tropics call back you come [04:02.16]This pride and grace in her brown young face [04:04.99]For hers was the blood of kings [04:08.65]In her eyes shone the glory of empires gone [04:12.21]She was wearing the devil's ring [04:15.41]You see these punctures in my arm [04:18.42]You know what they mean [04:21.63]They were left right there by my lady fair [04:25.51]Miss **** [04:29.99]I was dealt the eights and aces [04:32.77]Some call the dead man's hand [04:36.48]God knows I'm not the one to blame [04:39.13]For I'm only a mortal man [04:42.74]Whatever you play whatever the way [04:45.84]For stakes that are large or small [04:49.03]The claws of the tropics will gather your pile [04:52.23]The dealer gets it all [04:55.45]The tropics they're worse than habit [04:59.23]The burning blazing sun [05:02.66]Break away and swear you'll stay [05:05.68]The tropics call back you come [05:11.85]The tropics they're worse than habit [05:15.44]The burning blazing sun [05:18.93]Break away and swear you'll stay [05:22.21]The tropics call [05:27.53]Back you come