Spanish Is The Loving Tongue

Charles Badger Clark
Recorded by Bob Dylan Apr 1969, and released by Columbia on the fake Dylan-album Dylan (1973), in what's a contender to the title "Dylan's most tasteless arrangement" (but they seem to be having fun...).
Also recorded in a wonderful piano version, and played live during the Rolling Thunder Revue (1976)
Tabbed by Eyolf Řstrem

Dylan version

a cappella:

C         G      F    C
Broke her heart, lost my own
   G  Dm     C  
Adios mi corazon
C          G7 F           C
 Spanish is    the loving tongue
C        G7     F        G7
 Soft as music, light as spray
C            G7 F             C
 'Twas a girl    I learned it from
        G7     F G7 C       Csus2
 Living down Sonora way
      C       G7        F      C
 Well I don't look much like a lover 
C       G7  F                G7 
Still I say  her loved words over
C       G7   F         C
 Mostly when  I'm all alone!
C   G7    F   G7 Csus4   C  Csus2 C
 Mi amor, Mi corazón
      C                                       G7
La-la-la, La-la-la, La-la-la, La-la-la, La-la-la-la-la.
      G7                                      C
La-la-la, La-la-la, La-la-la, La-la-la, La-la-la-la-la.
      C                                       G7
La-la-la, La-la-la, La-la-la, La-la-la, La-la-la-la-la.
      G7                                      C
La-la-la, La-la-la, La-la-la, La-la-la, La-la-la.
Haven't seen her since that night,
I can't cross the line, you know.
They want me for the gamblin' fight
Like as not it's better so.
Still I've always kind of missed her
Since that last sad night I kissed her;
Broke her heart, lost my own
"Adios, mi corazon.
Broke her heart, lost my own
"Adios, mi corazon.
"Adios, mi corazon.
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Rolling Thunder Revue version

Municipal Auditorium, San Antonio, Texas, May 11, 1976

G          C          
 Spanish is the loving tongue
G              D              C
 Soft as music, light as spray
G            C
 'Twas a girl I learned it from
G            Am7    G        C/g G
 Living down Sonora way
G        D   C            G     C/g G
 I don't look much like a lover 
G        Bm   Am7               
 Still I hear  those loved words over
G       D    Am7
 Mostly when  I'm all alone!
G   Bm   Am7     G
 Mi amor, Mi corazón
On the nights that I would ride
She would listen for my spurs,
Throw that big door open wide,
G           Bm       Am7     G
Raise those laughing eyes of hers.
Oh, how the hours would go a-flyin!
All too soon I'd hear her sighin'
G      Bm        Am7
In her sweet and quiet tone 
"Mi amor, mi corazon."
But I had to fly one time 
All 'cause of a stupid gamblin' fight,
And so we said a swift goodbye
On that dark, unlucky night.
How oftentimes to me she's clingin'
And in my ears the hoofsbeats ringin',
As I galloped north alone 
"Adios, mi corazon."
G       Bm  Am7            
Haven't seen her since that night,
I can't cross the line, you know.
G       Bm Am7
She was Mex and I was white;
Like as not it's better so.
G          D     Am7      G         C/g G
Still I've always kind of missed her
Since that last wild night I kissed her;
G           Bm    Am7
I broke her heart, lost my own
"Adios, mi corazon."
Additional verses, not sung by Dylan on this occasion:
Moonlight on the patio,
Old senora nodding near,
Me and Juana talking low
So the Madre couldn't hear.
     Oh, how the hours would go a-flyin!
     And too soon i'd hear her sighin'
     In her little sorry tone
     "Adios, mi corazon."