From the musical “The Cocoanuts”, 1925
Words and music by Irving Berlin
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Spain! a lonely refrain
A glass of champagne
A heart that is yearning
Spain! the story is plain
A maiden, in vain
Awaits his returning
Chorus
They met one night
When the moon shone bright
And they soon romanced
As together they danced
To a tango melody
He praised her charms as within his arms
She was held and kissed
For she couldn’t resist
To a tango melody
Dawn! and soon he was gone
But lingering on was a tender melody
He left a tear, as a souvenir
For she waits in vain
With a broken refrain
Of a tango melody
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: