"Before This World"(2015) EDITED 1/25/20 -- FIXED A BUNCH OF CHORDS! [INTRO] O -le - a - na    via Del Norte        O Cana-da [VERSE I] It was snowtime it was showtime it was no time To be lost in downtown Toronto It was wintertime ’round dinnertime I’m beginning to see that the sunshine just doesn’t want to From a side street come a backbeat Pulling on me like the moon pullin’ on the tide   Ay caramba one-note samba la la la la bamba Lighting me up inside [CHORUS] They had the heat of the sun in the beat of the talking drum    The light of a tropical moon on a night to remember   Someone summoned up summer just strumming on an old guitar     And every note was the anti-dote to December         [VERSE II] My first impression some kind of procession Pulling on a long line of fancy dancers And a band stuck up on a flatbed truck They were raising a ruckus swinging for the fences Exiled Mexican textile working Punching two clocks sending two paychecks home boys Hard working law ’biding bus riding people Celebration on wheels destination unknown [CHORUS] They had the heat of the sun in the beat of the talking drum    The light of a tropical moon on a night to remember   Someone summoned up summer just strumming on an old guitar     And every note was the anti-dote to December [INTERLUDE] Ri- o    Grande O- le-a- na Vi-a Del Norte Oh Canada           /    /       /      / [CHORUS] There was a lifeline south in the song coming from her mouth It swallowed me up and I followed it on downtown   In the light of dawn the message that life goes on    For the frozen man an invitation to live again It was the heat of the sun in the beat of that talking drum   The light of a tropical moon on a night to remember   Someone summoned up summer just strumming on an old guitar    And every note the antidote to December    They were shakin’ it loose with the juice from the mambo man    Long lanky Yankee boy Buckwheat and Spanky my-my     [OUTRO] Santiago de Cuba Belo Horizonte Cartagena Guaguancó Canada Guaguancó Canada Santiago de Cuba Belo Horizonte Cartagena Guaguancó Canada Guaguancó Canada        Guaguancó Canada...