America’s favorite nice clean young white boy, Pat Boone, had a 1962 hit with this love-sick appeal to our hero, Mexico’s fastest mouse. “Speedy Gonzales, Why Don’t You Come Home?” he asks.
In this video, a fan mashes up a Warner Bros. Speedy cartoon with Boone’s music.
Speedy, of course, is voiced by the great Mel Blanc.
Check out the 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 alla your a-drinkin’
With that floozie named Flo
Come on home to your adobe
And slap some mud on the wall
The roof is leakin’ like a strainer
There’s loadsa roaches in the hall
Speedy Gonzales
Why don’tcha come home?
Speedy Gonzales
How come ya leave me all alone?
Hey, Rosita-I hafta go shopping downtown for my mudder
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
Speedy Gonzales
Why don’tcha come home?
Speedy Gonzales
How come ya leave me all alone?
Hey, Rosita-come quick, down at the canteena
They giving green stamps with tequila
[Disclosure: POCHO’s Comic Saenz once sat naked with Pat Boone in the steam room at the late Century Athletic Club on Avenue of the Stars in Los Angeles’ Century City district. Everybody shvitzed.]
