to new Havana

look at them while they pick your pocket

look at them while they pick your nose

but watch the island junta crumble

no one wonders where it goes.

the Bay of Pigs was the opening act

a few men landed on the beach

they tried to flip a man named Castro

but found he stayed beyond their reach.

and now he's dead and his brother old

their paradise has turned to rust

the labor force of Spanish people

is sick and tired of sweeping dust.

a tide comes in to new Havana

and leadership dares think anew

that dreams of living with ones' own thought

are monstrously overdue.

look at them while they pick your pocket

look at them while they pick your nose

but watch the island junta crumble

no one wonders where it goes.