Bye Bye Birdie - Original Broadway Cast: Spanish Rose

Spanish Rose - Chita Rivera

Written by：Charles Strouse/Lee Adams

I'm just a Spanish tamale according to Mae

Right off the boat from the tropics far far away

Which is kind of funny

Since where I come from is Allentown PA

Spanish ok may I'll be Spanish

Right after I've married alberto

I'll be the toast of chi chi costanango

And all day long my castanets will click

I'll hide behind my fan and do the tango

I'll be so spanish it'll make you sick

I'll eat the tacos and the enchilada

I'll drink tequila till I feel no pain

The only song I'll sing will be granada

I'll be more espanol than abbe lane

Coo coo coo

La cuc racha

Ssssso

Call me the wild Spanish Rose

The craziest flower that grows

I'll kick up my heels and see

How it feels to be sultry Spanish Rose

Behind my mantilla I will pose

The beauty that nobody knows

So regal and cool exciting and cruel

That's me Spanish Rose

Me mero rosita hernandez

You'll buy my tortilla

You like me yes no maybe eeyuckh

Americano let me give you a bit of advice

To 'cross Spanish Rose isn't twice

Your match you have found

So don't mess around

Her heart is cold like ice

With albert I will dance to the bolero

We'll cha cha in the nicest honky tonks

Hell wear a cute mustache and sombrero

My handsome latin lover from the bronx

So now that you've met Spanish Rose

You never forget Spanish Rose

Shell taunt you

Shell tame you but what man can blame you

For worshiping Spanish Rose

Not Danish

Not British

Not Swedish

Not Yiddish

But Spanish rosa