Spanish Is the Lovin' Tongue

Spanish Is the Lovin' Tongue - Michael Martin Murphey

Spanish is the loving tongue

Soft as springtime light as spray

There was a girl I learned it from

Living 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

Raise those laughing eyes of hers

And how those hours would get to flying

Pretty soon I'd hear her crying

Please don't leave me all alone

Mi amor mi corazon

Then one night I had to fly

I got into a foolish gambling fight

I had a swift goodbye

In that black unlucky night

And traveling north her words kept ringing

And every word I could hear her singing

Please don't leave me all alone

Mi amor mi corazon

Well I aingt never seen her since that night

I can't cross the line now

She was mexican and I was white

Like as not it's better so

And yet I've always sort of missed her

Since that last wild night I kissed her

I left my heart but I lost my own

Idors mi corazon