[00:00.75]The Tropics - Bertie Higgins
[00:01.40]Composed by：Bertie Higgins/Sonny Limbo
[00:31.23]So you've come to the Tropics
[00:33.78]And heard all you had to do
[00:37.44]Was sit in the shade of a coconut glade
[00:40.20]The pesos rolling to you
[00:43.91]They told you that at the border
[00:46.56]But get your directions straight
[00:50.48]Hear what it did to another kid
[00:53.04]Before you decide your fate
[00:56.66]I started out to be honest
[00:59.20]Put everything on the square
[01:02.45]But a boy can't fool with the Golden Rule
[01:05.80]With a crowd that won't play fair
[01:09.24]It was a case of winning in a dirty race
[01:12.03]Or dying with a losing hand
[01:15.81]My only hope was to steal the d**e
[01:18.53]The horse of another man
[01:21.75]The Tropics they're worse than the habit
[01:25.23]The burning blazing sun
[01:28.50]You break away and swear you'll stay
[01:31.71]The Tropics call and back you come
[01:38.10]I pulled a deal down in Brazil
[01:40.92]In an Inca silver mine
[01:44.29]Before they found it was salted ground
[01:47.17]I was safe in Argentine
[01:50.64]I ran a weight in ** freight
[01:53.56]'Round Cuba into the keys
[01:57.17]I gave my soul in pirate's gold
[02:00.00]Trying to buy myself free
[02:03.12]They called me a soldier of fortune
[02:06.13]But I sold myself like a w***e
[02:10.07]Peddling booze through the Santa Cruz
[02:12.78]And Winchester 44's
[02:16.30]Made unafraid by my drunken aid
[02:18.94]The bastards came roaring down
[02:22.06]And left in a shivering blazing mass
[02:25.39]A tiny border town
[02:28.63]The Tropics they're worse than the habit
[02:31.97]The burning blazing sun
[02:35.49]You break away and swear you'll stay
[02:38.69]The Tropics call and back you come
[02:59.51]I was next in charge of a smuggler's barge
[03:02.27]In the Straits of Yucatan
[03:05.29]But she sunk in a hole off Mexico
[03:08.44]One night in a hurricane
[03:12.27]I got to shore on a broken oar
[03:14.98]In the filthy shrieking dark
[03:18.42]And the other two of the good ship's crew
[03:20.74]Became a banquet for the shark
[03:24.85]On a fiery hot flea ridden cot
[03:27.66]I was dying with the yellow jack
[03:30.88]Alone in the sun and d**n near done
[03:33.84]She found me and pulled me back
[03:37.14]She came like the Virgin Maria
[03:40.05]And opened my fevered eyes
[03:43.91]Upon me shone a brand new dawn
[03:46.71]As I turned my face to the sky
[03:49.80]The Tropics they're worse than the habit
[03:53.35]The burning blazing sun
[03:56.48]You break away and swear you'll stay
[03:59.69]The Tropics call and back you come
[04:09.42]There was pride and grace in her brown young face
[04:12.07]For hers was the blood of kings
[04:15.52]In her eyes shone the glory of empires gone
[04:18.49]She was wearing the devil's ring
[04:22.13]You see these punctures in my arm
[04:25.33]You know what they mean
[04:28.29]They were left right there by my lady fair
[04:32.41]Ms ****
[04:36.10]I was dealt the eights and aces
[04:39.13]Some call the dead man's hand
[04:43.04]God knows I'm not the one to blame
[04:45.69]For I'm only a mortal man
[04:48.94]Whatever you play whatever the way
[04:52.10]For stakes that are large or small
[04:55.22]The claws of the tropics will gather your pile
[04:58.31]The dealer gets it all
[05:01.55]The Tropics they're worse than the habit
[05:05.03]The burning blazing sun
[05:08.21]You break away and swear you'll stay
[05:11.44]The Tropics call and back you come
[05:17.75]The Tropics they're worse than the habit
[05:21.14]The burning blazing sun
[05:24.29]You break away and swear you'll stay
[05:27.59]The Tropics call and back you come