Alright, so this is my first transcription. I'm fairly certain that all the chords are
From watching Jackson play this on The Colbert Report, he plays in drop D, but I think it
sounds fine in standard.
I've only listed chords for each part once, listen to the song for the proper changes
timing.
rev 1 - messed up on some chords, should be F# instead of Fm
verse
GD
Sometimes I get to feeling low
GD
Wish I could just pick up and go
DF#BmBm7
Somewhere new change my point of view
EAD
Maybe somewhere I don?t know
GD
Toss the idea to and fro
GD
Not sure what makes it come and go
DF#BmBm7
There it is again sweet music on the wind
EAD
Over the Gulf of Mexico
chorus
G
I?m going to down to Cuba someday soon
D
Following that Caribbean moon
AAsus4D
It?s been too long since I?ve been there
G
I?m going down there to see my friends
D
Down where the rhythm never ends
AAsus4D
Where women wear gardenias in their hair
bridge
F#Bm
People will tell you it?s not easy
F#Bm
You?re not supposed to go, they say
F#Bm
They say that Cuba is the enemy
EA
I?m going down there anyway
chorus
I?m going down to Cuba to see my friends
Down where the rhythm never ends
And no problem is too difficult to solve
Yeah times are tough down there it?s true
But you know they?re gonna make it through
They make such continuous use of the verb to resolve
bridge
They?ve got to deal with that embargo
Enough to drive any country insane
They might not know the things you and I know
They do know what to do in a hurricane
verse
Maybe I?ll go through Mexico
Old Jesse Helms don?t have to know
Anyway all the allies of the USA
Travel to Cuba everyday
chorus
I?m going down to Cuba to see my friends
Down where the rhythm never ends
Where by comparison my trouble will just unravel
I?m North American, you know
Don?t like to hear where I can?t go
Free people will insist on the freedom to travel
bridge
I?m gonna drink the running mojito
And walk out on the malecn
In one hand a monte cristo
And in the other an ice cream cone
chorus
I?m going down to cuba with my band
We?re going to formulate a plan
Whereby we obtain that cultural delusion
If I told you once I told you thrice
It?ll put a smile on your face to see a Chevrolet with a soviet transmission
verse
I bet the country cast a spell
And there are things I think of still
Like the beauty of that woman that spoke to me
In the hotel nacional
verse
I?m gonna book my flight today
I?m definitely on my way
Just hold my place and I?ll get back in the race
And I?m back in the USA