The Hollywood elite travel to Cuba and rub elbows with Castro then comes back to the states and tells us how great it is.
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Story behind the song
This song was written for Laura Ingraham, who requested that somebody write a song called "Ain't Gonna Play Havana", in her book "Shut Up and Sing", which I highly recommend for reading.
Lyrics
Ain't Gonna Play Havana
I’m just a dumb hick to the Hollywood elite
Cause I love the ground that’s under my feet.
He’s ignorant and arrogant, least that’s what they say.
He’s a Neanderthal in love with the USA.
Well I’d love to travel, jet set away
Belize and Kamchatka and down to the old Bombay
And everywhere I went I would surely want to play
a few songs about the American way.
And I could play in North Korea, but they’d cut off my head
The Red Chinese would not be pleased, I’d probably wind up dead
But I won’t go to Cuba, and smoke the best stuff.
No, I ain’t gonna play Havana.
The Hollywood crowd have been getting pretty loud
After hangin’ out with good old Fidel
They say he’s so grand and they just can’t understand
Why we all think that Cuba’s not so swell
Don’t they wonder why, the citizens cry
And risk their lives on the ocean to flee
Well it seems clear to me and it’s easy to see
Having fame’s not the same as a P.H.D.
And I could play in Vietnam but they don’t like Uncle Sam
And the man would come and haul my butt away
But I won’t go to Cuba, and smoke the very best
No, I ain’t gonna play Havana.
