i can't go home cause rosita will dance tonight i can't go home cause rosita will dance tonight woke up this morning too tired to move gotta keep working or i'm gonna lose my job three kids to feed and their mother's gone way up north now i'm all alone - can't stop my tears from filling up my empty gla** josé's sitting next to me and he says i can't go home cause rosita will dance tonight i can't go home cause rosita will dance tonight rosita is a girl she makes you feel funny makes your troubles go away and also your money i can't go home cause rosita will dance tonight josé want to cross the border some day hit the big time in the USA – he says he'll find my wife and bring her back one day he'll show up with a cadillac but everytime they caught him he came back on his feet and now we're sitting here unable to leave i can't go home cause rosita will dance tonight i can't go home cause rosita will dance tonight rosita is a girl she makes you feel funny makes your troubles go away and also your money i can't go home cause rosita will dance tonight i can't go home cause rosita will dance i can't go home cause rosita will dance i can't go home cause rosita will dance i can't go home cause rosita will dance i can't go home cause rosita will dance i can't go home cause rosita will dance i can't go home cause rosita will dance i can't go home cause rosita will dance i can't go home cause rosita will dance tonight i can't go home cause rosita will dance tonight i can't go home cause rosita will dance tonight i can't go home cause rosita will dance tonight i can't go home cause rosita will dance tonight i can't go home cause rosita will dance tonight i can't go home cause rosita will dance tonight i can't go home cause rosita will dance tonight