Oh Mama there's a Spanish dancer   Steps I follow when he comes near   A red dress of temptation   With a long black slip of fear   Will I fall beneath the shadows some broken cross   Arms emptied and all my treasures lost      Still like that Spanish dancer I   Throw my roses down for him   Across these beds of darkness he   Opens his arms and gathers them in      Oh Mama the bridges were burning   Over the river black and cold   I hoped when love commanded me   Up to the edges of his soul   And still frightened of the dark divide   Will I gain entrance or be denied?      Still like that Spanish dancer I   Throw my roses down for him   Across these beds of darkness He   Opens his arms and gathers them in      Oh Mama when you were a young girl   Did you ever love a man so much?   As if he were some fantastic girl that   You should never be worthy of?   All those illusions shouldn't fall   He is just a man after all      Still like that Spanish dancer I   Throw my roses down for him   Across these beds of darkness he   Opens his arms and gathers them in      Just like that Spanish dancer I   Throw my roses down for him   Across these beds of darkness he   Opens his arms and gathers them in      Just like that Spanish dancer I   Just like that Spanish dancer I   Just like that Spanish dancer I   Just like that Spanish dancer I