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Song Comments:

Music by: Alberto Domínguez
Lyrics by: Bob Russell
Composed in 1939
 
             

Lyrics: (Separate Lyrics) Some time ago I wandered down into old Mexico, While I was there I felt romance everywhere. Moon was shining bright And I could hear laughing voices in the night, Everyone was gay, This was the start of their holiday. It was fiesta down in Mexico And so I stopped a while to see the show, I knew that frenesí meant %22Please love me%22 And I could say frenesí. A lovely señorita caught my eye, I stood enchanted as she wandered by And never knowing that it come from me, I gently sighed frenesí. She stopped and raised her eyes to mine, Her lips just pleaded to be kissed, Her eyes were soft as candle-shine So how was I to resist? And now without a heart to call my own, A greater happiness I've never known, Because her kisses are for me alone; Who wouldn't say frenesí?