Story Behind The Song

This idea came on a flight from California to Austin. The song started out kinda bluesy, but wasn?t coming together and wound up on the backburner for a couple of months. One Saturday I was hanging out at Kenneth?s and showed him what I had (which at that

Song Description

Two guys enjoying life, not worrying about the past.

Lyrics

Cheese Enchiladas
Billy Eli, Jim Hemphill, Kenneth Welch copyright 2006

We were sitting down in Houston
When we saw a preacher on TV
He told us the world was ending
Were we where we wanted to be
I looked over at Mudbone
And he looked back at me
He said ?if hell?s at hand, you better understand
San Antone?s where I want to be?

Chorus:
We?ll be eating cheese enchiladas
With jalapenos on the side
The pretty girls with their bellyrings winking
While the river goes rolling by
They got the hot mariachi
So let?s have another shot of Patron
And if the devil wants to take us he?s gonna have to
Come to San Antone


So we climbed up in my old pickup
And Mudbone said he?d drive
We weren?t really all that worried
Cause the devil?s been after us all of our lives
So when the devil gets into Houston
And finds us already gone
You can tell him for us that if he catches the bus
We?ll pick him up in San Antone

Chorus
Where we?ll be eating cheese enchiladas
With jalapenos on the side
The pretty girls with their bellyrings winking
While the river goes rolling by
They got the hot mariachi
So let?s have another shot of Patron
And if the devil wants to take us he?s gonna have to
Come to San Antone

Chorus repeats

They got the hot mariachi
So let?s have another shot of Patron
And if the devil wants to take us he?s gonna have to
Come to San Antone