Senor Blues is what they call me
Way down Mexicali way.
Senoritas fallin' for me,
With the hope that I will stay.
By the time that they love me,
Senor Blues done gone away.

Senor Blues ain't bad lookin',
And he always knows just what to say.
Senor Blues ain't bad lookin',
And he always knows just what to say.
By the time that they love me,
Senor Blues done gone away.

I don't know why, don't know why, don't know why,
I'm a wonderin', wanderin' guy
With no one girl to lay my head by.
Oo, I'm so tired and lonely and blue,
'Cause the one girl I love won't be true.
Got the blues and it's all 'cause of you.
So what?

(Scat section)

Senor Blues is what they call me,
Way down Mexicali way.
Senoritas fallin' for me
With the hope that I will stay.
By the time that they love me,
Senor Blues done gone away.
(Please don't go away.)
Senor Blues done gone away
(Please don't go away.)
Senor Blues done gone away.
(Please don't go away.)

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Writer(s): Horace Silver