Frenesi

Frenesi
original music & lyric by Alberto Dominguez
English lyric by Ray Charles (left) & Bob Russell

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 frenesi meant, "please love me" and I could say frenesi...

A lovely senorita caught my eye, I stood enchanted as she wandered by,
And never knowing that it came from me, I gently sighed frenesi.
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 frenesi?