Spanish is the loving tongue
Soft as music, light as spray
‘Twas a girl I learned it from
Living down Sonora way
I don’t look much like a lover
Yet I say her love-words over
Often when I’m all alone:
Mi amor, mi corazon!
Moonlight on the patio
Old senora nodding near
Me and Juana talking low
So her madre could not hear
How those hours would go a-flyin'
And all too soon I’d hear her sighin'
In her little sorry tone
Mi amor, mi corazon!
Never seen her since that night;
I can’t cross the line, you know
I’m wanted for a gamblin' fight--
Like as not, it’s better so Yet I’ve always kind of missed her
And that last sad night I kissed her
I left her heart and lost my own…
Adios, mi corazon!