Classic Poem

  VERSE

Fate
Sent her to me
Over the sea from Spain.
Ah! She's the one in a million
For me.
I found my romance
When she went dancing by;
Ah! She must be a Castilian,
Si si.
Is she from Havana or Madrid?
But something about her is making me doubt her,
I think I remember the kid.

  REFRAIN

She's a Latin from Manhattan,
You can tell by her “Manyana.”
She's a Latin from Manhattan
And not Havana.
Though she does the rhumba for us
And she calls herself Dolores,
She was in a Broadway chorus,
Known as Susie Donahue.
She can take a tambourine and whack it,
But with her it's just a racket,
She's a hoofer from Tenth Avenue.
She's a Latin from Manhattan,
She's a Forty-second Streeter,
She's a Latin from Manhattan,
Señorita Donahue.