This is Havana   The night before the revolution   Carlos Romero Pambo plays the symphony   For Latin piano      Popping corks and blasting bullets   La Habanera dances in the streets   And like every night   Pedro Comacho sells peanuts outside the Tropicana Club      Don't ask me why   Life is one day   La Habanera   La Habanera      She dances on the street at night   La Habanera   La Habanera   She is ready for a fight   Don't ask my why      Pedro Comacho   The former informer of the secret police   Is still standing outside the club   Pretending to be blind      He watches the last plane to Miami   Disappearing in a flaming purple sky   Now he knows   He has been left behind      Don't ask me why   Life is one day   La Habanera   La Habanera      She dances under street lights   La Habanera   La Habanera   She is ready for a fight