Michael Martin Murphey -- Spanish Is The Loving Tongue lyrics

Spanish Is The Loving Tongue
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Arrangement by Michael Martin Murphey

Spanish is the lovin' tongue
Soft as springtime
Light as spray
There was a girl I learned it from
Livin' down Sonora way

Now I don't look much like a lover
Yet I say her love words over
Late at night when I'm all alone
Mi amor, mi corazon

There were nights when I would ride
She would listen for my spurs
Fling that big door open wide
And raise those laughing eyes of hers

And how would get to flying
Pretty soon I'd hear her crying
Please don't leave me all alone
Mi amor, mi corazon

Then one time I had to fly
I got into a foolish gambling fight
I had to say a swift goodbye
In that black unlucky night

And traveling north her words kept ringing
In every hoofbeat I could hear her singing
Please don't leave me all alone
Mi amor, mi corazon

Well, I ain't never seen her since that night
I can't cross the line, you know
She was Mexican and I was White
Like as not, it's better so

And yet I've always sorta missed her
Since that very first night I kissed her
I kept her heart, but I lost my own
Adios, mi corazon

NOTE OF INTEREST:

This song came from the poem, 'A Border Affair' by Badger Clark, written in June 1907. The melody for the words were written by Arizona cowboy, Bill Simon and became known as the title today.

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