Southwest Side Lyrics

Southwest Side lyrics

There's a Spanish girl with Ebony eyes

Selling Cuban coffee and guava pies

While the boys hang at the corner store

Drinkin' Iron Beer, rollin' dice on the floor



There is two old timers talking politics

About the Bay Of Pigs and Alfa '66

Willie Chirino on the radio

Cheguevara is no hero



It's just another day on the South-West side



There's a soldier standing in silk fatigues

Dictating who stays and who leaves

While a desperate man crashes through the gates

There's an uprising at Guantanamo Bay



You don't know what you've got till it's gone

So embrace your freedom, don't ever let go

There's an American flag waving in a Cuban breeze

Fidel Castro is no Jose Martiz



It's just another day on the South-West side

It's just another day on the South-West side

It's just another day on the South-West side



They were born in the ocean

They were baptized by the sea

They find a revolution to fight

Freedom in Miami Beach



It's just another day on the South-West side

It's just another day on the South-West side

It's just another day, it's just another day

It's just another day on the South-West side



Oh, say, can you see?