Spanish Flea (Dating Game)
by Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass · tab for chromatic harmonica
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There was a lit-tle Span-ish flea
A rec-ord star he thought he'd be
He'd heard of sing-ers like Bea-tles
The Chip-munks he'd seen on T- V
Why not a lit-tle Span-ish flea?
And so he hid
In-side a dog-gie from Ma-drid
Ar-riv-ing here in the ci-ty
Still sing-ing his sweet har-mo- ny
As broke as an- y flea could be
He walked a-round
As if he owned the town
Hum-ming his pint sized mel-o-dy
With his gui-tar he knew he'd be a star
And in his old home town,
how proud they'd be
Then all at once he met a man
Who said, "I'll help you if I can"
He list-ened first to his song
Then he sang right a-long for you see
He loved the lit-tle Span-ish flea
'You'll be the rage.
I'll put you on the stage
In cos-tumes like you've nev-er worn.'
Well, at a glance
he knew this was his chance
Yes all at once a Span-ish star was born.
For when the peo-ple heard him play
They all be-gan to shout 'O-le!'
He was the pride of the na-tion,
A sing-ing sen-sa-tion was he
Though he was just a Span-ish flea.