[Chorus] Baby, baby make me loco Baby, baby make me mambo
[Verse 2] Sent to spy on a Cuban talent show First stop: Havana-go-go I used to make a living, man, picking the banana Hooray for Havana
[Chorus] Baby, baby make me loco Baby, baby make me mambo
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“Havana Affair” is about a Cuban man working for the C.I.A. in order to lead a better life, as an allegory for the Cuban Missile Crisis and the larger Cold War.
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