DurhamNtx's blog: "Music"

Lately I have been stuck on old cartoons (Loony Tunes, Merry Melodes, etc.) and someone reminded me of a song Pat Boone did in 1962 which made it all the way to the top 10 on the charts. 

Speedy Gonzales

Written by  Buddy Kaye, Ethel Lee and David Hess
Performed by Pat Boone

(spoken)
It was a moonlit night in Old Mexico.
I walked alone between some old adobe haciendas.
Suddenly, I heard the plaintive cry of a young Mexican girl...

(in obnoxious soprano)Laaaaaaaa!
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-laaaaaaaaaa!
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-laaaaaaaaaa!
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-laaaaaaaaaa!

You better come home Speedy Gonzales
Away from tannery row
Stop all of your drinking
With that floosie named Flo!
Come on home to your adobe
And slap some mud on the wall!
The roof is leaking like a strainer
There's loads of roaches in the hall.(La la la la)

Chorus:
Speedy Gonzales
(Speedy Gonzales)
Why don't you come home?
Speedy Gonzales

How come you leave me all alone?

(Speedy Gonzales' voice)
Hey, Rosita, I have to go shopping downtown for my mother,she needs some tortillas and Chilli Peppers!

(in obnoxious soprano again)
Laaaaaaaa! La-la-la-la-la-la-la-laaaaaaaaaa! La-la-la-la-la-la-la-laaaaaaaaaa!
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-laaaaaaaaaa!

Your doggie's gonna have a puppy
And we're running out of Coke.
No enchiladas in the icebox
And the television's broke
I saw some lipstick on your sweatshirt
I smell some perfume in your ear
Well, if you're gonna keep on messin',
Don't bring your business back a-here!
(La la la la)

Chorus
(Speedy again)Hey, Rosita, come quick! Down at the cantina,
they're giving green stamps with tequila!"

(Again the obnoxious soprano)Laaaaaaaa! La-la-la-la-la-la-la-laaaaaaaaaa! La-la-la-la-la-la-la-laaaaaaaaaa!La-la-la-la-la-la-la-laaaaaaaaaa!
(repeat and fade)

Rock on!
Shawn