{"id":243,"date":"2014-10-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\/index.php\/2014\/10\/09\/post-236-speedy-gonzales-1962\/"},"modified":"2014-10-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T00:00:00","slug":"post-236-speedy-gonzales-1962","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/2014\/10\/09\/post-236-speedy-gonzales-1962\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-236: Speedy Gonzales (1962)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #3e3e3e;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #3e3e3e;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #3e3e3e;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #3e3e3e;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #3e3e3e;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #3e3e3e;\">&#8220;Speedy Gonzales&#8221; is a song I heard for the first time fifty-two years after it was released. I heard it on satellite radio in my uncle&#8217;s car in Connecticut, August 2014. It is based on the old cartoon of the same name.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>It is a lively and fun song. It would also never, ever, be allowed by today&#8217;s &#8220;gatekeepers of acceptable discourse&#8221; in the USA. No way would a major pop singer be allowed to release anything like this today. There are still plenty of acceptable cultural targets of mockery, but this one would today be <em>verboten<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wsite-youtube\" style=\"margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;\">\n<div class=\"wsite-youtube-wrapper wsite-youtube-size-auto wsite-youtube-align-center\">\n<div class=\"wsite-youtube-container\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B3vo_R1g7VE?wmode=opaque\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #3e3e3e;\">Lyrics below:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"170686185143208550\" class=\"wcustomhtml\" style=\"width: 100%; overflow-y: hidden;\" align=\"left\"><a id=\"continue\" name=\"continue\"><\/a><span style=\"color: white;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #3e3e3e;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yuletyde.com\/a-blog\/post-236-speedy-gonzales-1962#continue\"><span style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #3e3e3e;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #3e3e3e;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #3e3e3e;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #3e3e3e;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #3e3e3e;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000bff;\">Read More<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><!--BLOG_SUMMARY_END--><\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #3e3e3e;\"><strong>Speedy Gonzales<\/strong> (1962) By Pat Boone<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #3e3e3e;\"><br \/>\nIt was a moonlit night in old Mexico<br \/>\nI walked alone, between some old adobe haciendas.<br \/>\nSuddenly, I heard the plaintive cry of a young Mexican girl&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>La-la-<em>la!<\/em> La-la-la-<em>la<\/em>-la-la-la-laaa! etc.<\/p>\n<p>You better come home, Speedy Gonzales<br \/>\nAway from Tannery Row<br \/>\nStop all of your drinkin&#8217;<br \/>\nWith that floozie named Flo<\/p>\n<p>Come on home to your adobe<br \/>\nAnd slap some mud on the wall<br \/>\nThe roof is leakin&#8217; like a strainer<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s loads of roaches in the hall<\/p>\n<p>La-la-la-la!<\/p>\n<p>Speedy Gonzales (Speedy Gonzales)<br \/>\nWhy don&#8217;t you come home?<br \/>\nSpeedy Gonzales (Speedy Gonzales)<br \/>\nHow come you leave me all alone?<\/p>\n<p><em>Hey, Rosito, I hafta go shopping downtown for my &#8220;mudder&#8221;<br \/>\nShe needs some tortillas and chili &#8220;paypers&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Your doggy&#8217;s gonna have a puppy<br \/>\nAnd we&#8217;re runnin&#8217; outta coke<br \/>\nNo enchiladas in the icebox<br \/>\nAnd the television&#8217;s broke<\/p>\n<p>I saw some lipstick on your sweatshirt<br \/>\nI smelled some perfume in your ear<br \/>\nWell, if you&#8217;re gonna keep on messin&#8217;<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t bring your business back-a-here<\/p>\n<p>Speedy Gonzales (Speedy Gonzales)<br \/>\nWhy don&#8217;t you come home?<br \/>\nSpeedy Gonzales (Speedy Gonzales)<br \/>\nHow come you leave me all alone?<\/p>\n<p><em>Hey, Rosita come quick! Down at the cantina<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re giving green stamps with tequila!!<\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"height: 20px; overflow: hidden; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"styled-hr\" style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<div style=\"height: 20px; overflow: hidden; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #3e3e3e;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #3e3e3e;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #3e3e3e;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #3e3e3e;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: #3e3e3e;\">(Speedy Gonzalez, 1962)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Speedy Gonzales&#8221; is a song I heard for the first time fifty-two years after it was released. I heard it on satellite radio in my uncle&#8217;s car in Connecticut, August 2014. It is based on the old cartoon of the same name.It is a lively and fun song. It would also never, ever, be allowed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}