A popular song from 1910
Words and music by Max Armstrong
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. Down South, where the San Jacinto’s flowing
Down where the tall palm trees are growing
Where perfumed breezes soft are blowing
My home in ancient Mexico
There lives a dark-eyed Senorita
No girl could e’er be sweeter
And I am going back to meet her
Back to my Mexican Queen
Chorus
So to Mexico for my dark-eyed sweetheart I will go
And the time seems too slow, only because I love her so
And my love will confide, ask her to be my bride
And then through life we’ll glide in Mexico
So to Mexico for my dark-eyed sweetheart I will go
And the time seems too slow, only because I love her so
And my love will confide, ask her to be my bride
And then through life we’ll glide in Mexico
2. At night, when the stars are brightly gleaming
Of her my love alone I’m dreaming
They seem to me like her eyes a-beaming
With a soft and tender love I glow
Lonely and slow now seem the hours
Far from the land of flowers
And my love in shaded bowers
Waits in my Mexican home