《The Tropics》歌词

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:01:13] The burning blazing sun

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:02:15] A tiny border town

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

[00:02:22] The burning blazing sun

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:03:45] The burning blazing sun

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:04:25] Ms Morphine

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:04:58] The burning blazing sun

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

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

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

[00:05:15] The burning blazing sun

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

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