Azure Sea Lyrics

Thirteen hundred Cuban Compadres

Yankee cryptic blessings sent their way

Giron was the beach of choice

Deprive Castro of Rolls Royce

Departing on a moonless night at four

Past the reefs we hit the beach

But never got the promised air support

Assaulting brigadiers two five O six

Island expats C I A hand picked

Trained Useppa volunteers

And by the best to have no fear

We trusted we were on the side of right

Sirens blared when we got there

Surrendered to arrest by end of night

How I love the tropic breeze

As it whispers past the cays

You can hear in fallen fronds

Land crabs rustle until dawn

The affairs of men pingpong

Sometimes everything goes wrong

Take a rest to be blessed

And hear the best

Kirtland's Warbler sings his song

Mama's beans and rice with bacon

Always black beans never red

Of respect and deep frustration

To commiserate the dead

Sometimes we will fry banana

In the oil of the palm tree

And so we live on what the tide brings

Here to us from the Azure Sea

How I love the tropic breeze

As it whispers past the cays

You can hear in fallen fronds

Land crabs rustle until dawn

The affairs of men pingpong

Sometimes everything goes wrong

Take a rest to be blessed

And hear the best

Kirtland's Warbler sings his song