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dark is the night
Dark is the Night
I wake up at nights
And think of death to the point
When I wake up and it is dawn
Now that Fidel Castro is dead as well
I`m losing the last link with the past
I was in Havana pre-Castro
Wild night of debauchery great for us
But I saw the suffering as the dance
Got wilder and wilder in our ignorance
As young sailors we thought was
Paradise; then the man came down from
The mountain and like Jesus chased sellers
Of dubious wares out of the temple he chased
The whore-masters away back to Florida mostly
And sent women to school
The price was high his sullen neighbours
Never forgave him for taken their playground away
I wake up at nights
And think of death to the point
When I wake up and it is dawn
Now that Fidel Castro is dead as well
I`m losing the last link with the past
I was in Havana pre-Castro
Wild night of debauchery great for us
But I saw the suffering as the dance
Got wilder and wilder in our ignorance
As young sailors we thought was
Paradise; then the man came down from
The mountain and like Jesus chased sellers
Of dubious wares out of the temple he chased
The whore-masters away back to Florida mostly
And sent women to school
The price was high his sullen neighbours
Never forgave him for taken their playground away
Published 27th Nov 2016
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Sorry to say, the US brought Castro on themselves by supporting Battista and helping him turn Havana into a Monte Carlo - with gambling dens controlled by the Mafia. Many Cubans came to see Castro as a liberator by comparison given this background.
He came to power in the year I was born so I grew up (in UK) with Cuba in our news (too young to recall the missile crisis).
He came to power in the year I was born so I grew up (in UK) with Cuba in our news (too young to recall the missile crisis).
