South of the Border (Down Mexico Way)

South of the Border (Down Mexico Way) es una de esas canciones que trascienden generaciones y fronteras, escrita en 1939 por los compositores Jimmy Kennedy y Michael Carr.

A lo largo del tiempo y desde su lanzamiento ha tenido numerosas versiones como las realizadas por Frank Sinatra, Patti Page, Perry Como, Mel Tormé, Sam Cooke, Patsy Cline, Dean Martin, Willie Nelson o la fantástica versión que en 1996 hizo el cantante estadounidense Chris Isaak para su álbum Baja Sessions que le da un estilo más romántico y melancólico al desacelerar el ritmo original, creando una atmósfera más íntima y relajada, apoyándose en un sonido acústico como la guitarra española.

South of the border, down Mexico way
That's where I fell in love where stars above, came out to play
And now as I wonder, my thoughts ever stray
South of the border, down Mexico way

She was a picture, in old spanish ways
Just for a tender while I kissed the smile, upon her face
For it was fiesta, and love had it's day
South of the border, down Mexico way

Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay (Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay)
Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay (Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay)

Then she sighed as she whispered mañana,

never dreaming that we were parting
And I lied as I whispered mañana,

for our tomorrow never came

South of the border, I rode back one day
There in a veil of white by candlelight, she kneeled to pray
The mission bells told me, that I shouldn't stay
South of the border, down Mexico way

Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay (Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay)
Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay (Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay)
Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay (Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay)
Good bye, good bye