Song Lyric Sunday – May 3 2020 – Burrito /Fajita /Mexican /Tequila

Jim Adams’ Song Lyric Sunday gives us the chance to share familiar, and sometimes not so familiar, songs.

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This week’s prompt left me completely at a loss. I’ve never been to Mexico. I’ve never tried Tequila. I’ve never eaten Mexican food, and I couldn’t think of a song to fit.  What was I to do?

Then I remembered – 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

Song by Pat Boone

Speedy Gonzales

Lyrics

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

You better come home, Speedy Gonzales
Away from tannery row
Stop all a your a-drinkin’
With that floozy named Flo
Come on home to your adobe
And slap some mud on the wall
The roof is leakin’ like a strainer
There’s loads a roaches in the hall

Speedy Gonzales, why don’t cha come home?
Speedy Gonzales, how come ya leave me all alone?

“Hey, Rosita – I hafta go shopping downtown for my mother
She needs some tortillas and chili peppers.”

Your doggy’s gonna have a puppy
And we’re runnin’ outta Coke
No enchiladas in the icebox
And the television’s broke
I saw some lipstick on your sweatshirt
I smelled some perfume in your ear
Well if you’re gonna keep on messin’
Don’t bring your business back a-here

Mmm, Speedy Gonzales, why don’t cha come home?
Speedy Gonzales, how come ya leave me all alone?

“Hey, Rosita – come quick 
Down at the cantina they giving green stamps with tequila!!”

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Buddy Kaye / David Hess / Ethel Lee

Speedy Gonzales lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc, Carlin America Inc