Spanish is the loving tongue Bright as music, soft as spray 'Twas a girl I learned it from Living down Sonora way I don't look much like a lover But I say her love words over Often when I'm all alone "Mi amor, mi corazon." Nights when she knew where I'd ride She would listen for my spurs Throw them big doors open wide And raise them laughing eyes of hers And how my heart would near stop beating When I'd hear her tender greeting Whispered soft for me alone "Mi amor, mi corazon." Midnight on the patio Old senora nodding near Me and my lover talking low So the Madre, so the Madre, would not hear And how those hours would go a-flying And all too soon I'd hear her sighing As the moonlight brightly shone "Oh, me amor, mi corazon." Then one night I had to ride From a foolish gamblin' fight And we said our swift goodbyes On that dark unlucky night And when I'd loosed her arms from clingin' With the hoofs her words kept ringin' As I traveled north alone "Adios, mi corazon." I haven't seen her since that night Oh, I can't cross the line, you know I'm still wanted for that gamblin' fight And like as not it's better so Still I often kind of miss her Since that last sad night I kissed her She lost her heart, and I lost my own "Adios, mi corazon."