Discover the story of the song > She Never Spoke Spanish To Me – Joe Ely

The protagonist meets a woman in Mexico who was young and had a sad laughter. He noticed that she loved the Spanish language and that it is referred to as the language of love, but she never spoke it to him. She was born in Monterey and had a religious upbringing, but she still never spoke Spanish to him. Despite their shared laughter over a Texas joke, she never spoke Spanish to him. Eventually, he left her in Mexico, wondering why she never spoke Spanish to him.