Bye Bye Birdie Spanish Rose Lyrics

Spanish Rose Lyrics

Rosie: 

 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 "español" 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 

 Olé! 

  

 Behind my mantilla I will pose 

 The beauty that nobody knows! 

 So regal and cool, exciting and cruel, 

 That's me! Spanish rose 

  

 (My name 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 do not twice 

 Your match you have found 

 So don't mess around 

 Her heart is cold as ice! 

  

 With Albert I will dance to the bolero 

 We'll cha cha in the nicest honky tonks 

 Hell wear a little mustache and sombrero 

 My handsome Latin lover from the Bronx 

  

 So now that you've met Spanish rose 

 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 span............................ish 

 Rosa