Cuba Groove chords by Gene Mitchell

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Verse 1
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It's  (A major) just so ridiculous!  (D major)  (A major)  (D major)  (A major) 
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 (D major) 
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 (B minor) Rick (D major) y  Ricardo playing his conga
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Brought Cuba to the U .S .A.  (A major) 
Down to Havana to the Tropicana
Americans headed to play
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 (D major) The men wore  (G major) tropical shirts
Women wore big ruffled skirts
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All  (D major) looking for a little romance
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That Carib (A major) bean beat in
the tropical heat
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Made everybody get up and dance  (D major) 
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The  (G major) Cuban crew was on the move  (D major) 
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The  (A major) beat of a bongo playing a mambo
With a trumpet and a
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Spanish guitar  (D major) 
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The Cuba  (G major) crew, still on the move  (D major)  (G major)  (D major) 
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A conga  (A major) drum and a bottle of rum
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Still makes you rumba under the stars  (D major) 
Fidel Castro, he caused a fiasco
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October 1962  (A major) 
With his Russian missiles
Threatening to whistle overhead
The red, white and blue
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 (D major) Then  (G major) came the embargo of all Cuban cargo
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No more  (D major) cigars from Havana town
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But  (A major) that Cuban music,
we didn't lose it
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Americans still love that sound  (D major) 
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The  (G major) Cuba crew was on the move  (D major) 
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The beat  (A major) of the bongo playing the mambo
With a trumpet and a Spanish guitar
D 
G 
 (D major) The  (G major) Cuba crew, still on the move
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 (D major) A  (A major)  (D major)  (A major) conga drum and a bottle of rum
still makes you rumba under
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the stars  (D major)  (B minor) 
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Fedora's stiletto  (G major) shoes,
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Mojito's  (A major) a table for two
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Take  (B minor) a trip back  (E major) in time
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when the  (G major) band played Babaloo
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 (A major)  (D major)  (A major)  (D major)  (A major)  (D major)  (A major) 
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 (D major) Ba ba boo!  (G major)  (D major)  (A major) 
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 (D major) 
Ricky Ricardo, playing his conga,
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is now on a heavenly mission.  (A major) 
I don't mean to be picky,
but his son little Ricky
didn't carry on the Cuban tradition.
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 (D major) But we have  (G major) Gloria Estefan
and that margarita man
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One day,  (D major) he's gonna win a Grammy
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But  (G major) we  (A major) don't have to go all the way
down to Cuba
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We only have to go to Miami  (D major) 
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The  (G major) Cuba crew was on the move
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 (D major) La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
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The beat  (A major) of a bongo playing a mambo
D 
With a trumpet and a Spanish guitar  (D major) 
G 
The  (G major) Cuba groove, still on the move
D 
A 
 (D major) A  (A major) conga drum and a bottle of rum
D 
still makes you rumba under the stars  (D major) 
A 
When you  (A major) need to move,
there's nothing you can do
Give in to the Cuba groove
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 (D major) 