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Date: 1/26/98; 12:59:49 PM
From: "Christensen, LeonW" <LeonW_Christensen@ATK.COM>
Subject: Spanish Is The Lovin' Tongue - Michael Martin Murphey

Spanish Is The Lovin' Tongue
Traditional Cowboy Song
Recorded by Michael Martin Murphey



                Spanish Is The Lovin' Tongue


           Bb             Eb
	1.	Spanish is the lovin' tongue
           Bb                  F7
		Soft as springtime, light as spray
           Bb                 Eb
		There was a girl I learned it from
           Bb          F7     Bb
		Living down Sonora way
               Bb          Bb7   Eb     Bb
		Now I don't look much like a lover
                         F7
		Yet I say her love words over
           Bb                   Eb
		Late at night when I'm all alone
            Bb         F7  Bb
		"Mi amor, mi corazon"

	2.	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 flyin'
		Pretty soon, I'd hear her cryin'
		"Please don't leave me all alone
		Mi amor, mi corazon"

	3.	Then one night I had to fly
		I got into a foolish gamblin' 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"

	4.	Well, I ain't 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
		"Mi amor, mi corazon"