Origins: Down Where the Drunkards Roll (R Thompson

11 Apr 97 - 10:47 PM (#4492)
Subject: Speedy Gonzalas Lyrics
From: SBChief

Around 1961 and lyrics went something like "Speey Gonzalas/ away from Panery Row/ Quit all your smmochin/ with a coochie named mo. Lyrics wanted

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13 Apr 97 - 12:43 PM (#4565)
Subject: RE: Speedy Gonzalas Lyrics
From: Rodney Rawlings

Wasn't that the Pat Boone hit? I don't know the lyrics but will try to find them for you.

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14 Apr 97 - 03:18 PM (#4617)
Subject: RE: Speedy Gonzalas Lyrics
From: Rodney Rawlings

I'll give it in two or three messages due to room restrictions:

Speedy Gonzales, why don't you come home?
Speedy Gonzales, how come you leave me all alone?

Hey Rosita, I have to go shopping
Downtown for my mamma.
She needs some tortillas and chilli peppers.
La la la, la la la la la la la la
La La La la la la la la, la la la la la la la la

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14 Apr 97 - 03:21 PM (#4618)
Subject: RE: Speedy Gonzalas Lyrics
From:

Part Two:

Your dog is gonna have a puppy
And we're running out of coke
No enchiladas in the ice box
And the telebision's broke
I saw some lipstick on your sweat shirt
I smell the purfume in your ear
Well, if you've gonna keep on messin'
Don't bring your business back here

(cont.)

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14 Apr 97 - 03:23 PM (#4619)
Subject: RE: Speedy Gonzalas Lyrics
From: Rodney Rawlings

Part Three (of my message, not of the song):

Speedy Gonzales, why don't you come home
Speedy Gonzales, how come you leave me all alone

Hey Rosita, come quick, down at the cantina
They're giving green stamps with tequila
La la la la la la la la .....


You're welcome!

Rodney Rawlings

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14 Apr 97 - 05:12 PM (#4624)
Subject: RE: Speedy Gonzalas Lyrics
From: Rodney Rawlings

Ooops! Left out the most important part, Part Zero:


It was a moonlit night in old Mexico
I walked alone between some old adobe haciendas
Suddenly I head the plain-tiff cry of a young Mexican girl

La la la, la la la la la la la
La la la, la la la la la la la la la la la la

You better come home Speedy Gonzales
Away from Cannery Row
Stop all of your drinkin'
With that floozy named Flo
Come on home to your adobe (cont.)

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14 Apr 97 - 05:15 PM (#4625)
Subject: RE: Speedy Gonzalas Lyrics
From: Rodney Rawlings

And slap some mud on the wall
The roof is leakin' like a strainer
There's lots of garbage in the hall

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21 Apr 97 - 07:35 PM (#4147)
Subject: Down Where the Drunkards Roll - history
From: Denis

The fine Richard Thompson song named seems straightforward enough except for the first verse, which goes:

"See the boys out walking, the boys they look so fine,
dressed up in green velvet, their silver buckles shine,
Soon they'll be bleary-eyed under a keg of wine,
Down where the drunkards roll...".

Is this a specific historical reference? Did Richard have in mind 18th-century seamen? Does anybody know? Please advise. Thanks. Denis

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