{"id":154,"date":"2021-05-10T02:00:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T02:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=154"},"modified":"2026-04-16T19:38:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:38:00","slug":"blue-spanish-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/blue-spanish-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Spanish Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69ea9182bf6890003290251' value='69ea9182bf6890003290251'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69ea9182bf6890003290251' value='Show More'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69ea9182bf6890003290251' value='Show Less'><button id='bg-showmore-action-69ea9182bf6890003290251' class='bg-showmore-plg-button bg-orange-button  '   style=\" color:#4a4949;\">Show More<\/button><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69ea9182bf6890003290251' ><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>&#8220;Spanish Eyes&#8221; is a song about a romantic couple. They do not live in the same community. The person with the Spanish eyes is a woman who has the &#8220;prettiest eyes in all of Mexico. She is crying because the person she loves is leaving. He is encouraging her to consider his departure as &#8220;adios but not goodbye.&#8221; He promises to return, and asks her to &#8220;wait for me.&#8221; When he returns he promises to bring her all the love her heart can hold. He asks her to say &#8220;si, si,&#8221; (yes, yes in English). The lyrics make it clear he is going away. His focus on her ethnicity as &#8220;Spanish&#8221; and &#8220;Mexican,&#8221; suggest he comes from a different ethnic background and is likely a foreigner from another country. In asking her to say &#8220;si, si,&#8221; it appears her native language is Spanish. Though, unlike the majority of brown-eyed Mexicans, her eyes are blue. Perhaps she has a mixed heritage.In the mid-60&#8217;s, Mexico was becoming a tourist destination. Accompanying the tourist boom, it was not uncommon for tourists to fall in love with Mexicans on their vacations. Sometimes this resulted in only a fling. But, sometimes it resulted in the foreigner moving to Mexico. And as often as not, when the romance led to marriage, the couple moved to the country where the tourist came from.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\"><strong>Key of G <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>[G] Blue Spanish Eyes.\u00a0 Teardrops are falling from your Spanish [D] eyes.\u00a0 [D7] Please, please don&#8217;t cry.\u00a0 This is just adios and not [G] goodbye.\u00a0\u00a0 [G] Soon I&#8217;ll return.\u00a0 [G7]\u00a0 Bringing you all the love your heart can [C] hold.\u00a0 [Cm] Please say, [G] &#8220;Si, si&#8221;.\u00a0 Say [D7] you and your Spanish eyes will wait for [G] me<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/robertandrews.net\/chords\/C\/CH%20minor.jpg\" height=\"125\" align=\"right\" \/>[G] Blue Spanish eyes.\u00a0 Prettiest eyes in all of [D] Mexico.\u00a0 [D7] Two Spanish eyes.\u00a0 Please smile for me once more before I [G] go.\u00a0\u00a0 [G] Soon I will return. \u00a0 [G7] Bringing you all the\u00a0 love your heart can [C] hold.\u00a0 [Cm] Please say, [G] &#8220;Si, si.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong> \u00a0 Say [D7] you and your Spanish eyes will wait for [G] me<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>[G] Tu, solo tu.\u00a0 Has ense\u00f1ado a mi alma tu [D7] querer.<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>\u00a0 Tu y solo tu.\u00a0 Has hecho que yo vuelva [G] a amanecer.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Soon I will return. \u00a0 Bringing you all the [G7] love your heart can [C] hold.\u00a0 [Cm] Please say, [G] &#8220;Si, si.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Say [D7] you and your Spanish eyes will wait for [G] me.\u00a0\u00a0 Say [D7] you and your Spanish eyes will wait for [G] me<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>CHA CHA CHA ending&#8217;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Spanish translates as:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>You &#8211; Only You. You have taught my soul how to love.<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>\u00a0 You and only you. You have awakened my soul<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key of G [G] Blue Spanish Eyes.\u00a0 Teardrops are falling from your Spanish [D] eyes.\u00a0 [D7] Please, please don&#8217;t cry.\u00a0 This is just adios and not [G] goodbye.\u00a0\u00a0 [G] Soon I&#8217;ll return.\u00a0 [G7]\u00a0 Bringing you all the love your heart can [C] hold.\u00a0 [Cm] Please say, [G] &#8220;Si, si&#8221;.\u00a0 Say &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/blue-spanish-eyes\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blue Spanish Eyes<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,24,120,133,126,265,116,117,115,68,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special-filter","category-3-chords","category-perflive","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-best-songs","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-tenor","category-love-songs","category-power-outage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27540,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/27540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}