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[Verse 1]
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Spanish is the lovin’ tongue,
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Soft as music, light as spray.
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‘Twas a girl I learnt it from,
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Livin’ down Sonora way.
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I don’t look much like a lover,
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Yet I say her love words over
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Often when I’m all alone -
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“Mi amor, mi corazon.”
[Verse 2]
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Nights when she knew where I would ride
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She would listen for my spurs,
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Throw those big doors open wide,
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Raise them laughin’ eyes of hers
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And my heart would nigh stop beatin’
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When I heard her tender greetin’,
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Whispered soft for me alone
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“Mi amor! mi corazon!”
[Verse 3]
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Moonlight in the patio,
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Old Señora noddin’ near,
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Me and Juana talkin’ low
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So her madre couldn’t hear -
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How those hours would go a-flyin'
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And too soon I’d hear her sighin’
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In her little sorry tone -
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“Adios, mi corazon!”
[Verse 4]
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But one time I had to fly
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For a foolish gamblin’ fight,
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And we said a swift goodbye
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In that black, unlucky night.
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But traveling north her words kept riniging
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With every hoofbeat I could hear her singing
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Please don't leave me all alone -
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“Mi amor, mi corazon”
[Verse 5]
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Never seen her since that night,
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I can’t cross the line, you know.
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She was Mexican and I was White;
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Like as not it’s better so.
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Yet I’ve always sort of missed her
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Since that very last night I kissed her,
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I broke her heart but lost my own -
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“Adios, mi corazon!”
