# Songs about shoes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 12, 2006, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-shoes/352395 "2006-04-12T16:26:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-shoes/352395/41 "2006-04-12T21:07:09Z")
_The Other Shoe_ - **Old 97s** \* One old brown shoe falls in slow motion, And the bedsprings hover right above your head, As bed springs do, when you’re beneath them. Someone else just climbed into your bed. By the time she thought you’d probably got to Phoenix, She’d arranged for your shoes to be filled. Well you’ve got your pride, and a blue-steel '45, And you’re waiting for the other shoe to fall.\* ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-shoes/352395/42 "2006-04-12T21:22:31Z")
Sensible Shoes by David Lee Roth springs to mind. Also the line from Madison Blues by George Thorogood. > [@](#): > > Ah you babes talk about your Madison shoes > We got a thing we call the Madison blues ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-shoes/352395/43 "2006-04-12T22:20:34Z")
How could we forget the master, Hank Williams? _Why don’t you love me like you used to do? How come you treat me like a worn-out shoe? My hair is still curly, my eyes are still blue, So why don’t you love me like you used to do?_ ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-shoes/352395/44 "2006-04-12T22:21:50Z")
> [@Homebrew](#): > > _By the time she thought you’d probably got to Phoenix, > She’d arranged for your shoes to be filled._ Good entry for the “Songs that Reference Other Songs” thread. ---
**Author:** ![carlb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carlb/32/5930_2.png) [@carlb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlb)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-shoes/352395/45 "2006-04-12T22:40:39Z")
> [@Beadalin](#): > > **Boogie shoes** by KC and the Sunshine Band. > > I am ashamed that this is my sole contribution to this thread, but my good ones were already taken. Honest! No need to be ashamed, because from now on whenever I hear that song I will imagine Felicity Huffman dancing on a bar in tight pants and a vest with no shirt (see _Desperate Housewives_ Episode 2.05). I always had a thing for her before that, but damn, can that woman move! Back on topic, there’s: “Kick off your high-heeled sneakers, it’s party time.” - _FM_ by Steely Dan ---
**Author:** ![Tamarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tamarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamarin)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-shoes/352395/46 "2006-04-12T22:55:22Z")
Jill Sobule’s _Big Shoes_ Mary McKay she had Mary Janes With that patent leather shine She was known as Tinker Bell And I was Frankenstein Big shoes before they were big Big shoes I’ll never forgive My mother made me wear big shoes ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-shoes/352395/47 "2006-04-12T23:08:32Z")
> [@caveman](#): > > [_Boor Scoot Boogie_ - Billy Ray Cyrus: Pure evil I think you mean _Boot Scootin’ Boogie_, and it’s by Brooks & Dunn. If you’re gonna insult country music, at least get the names right. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-shoes/352395/48 "2006-04-12T23:12:09Z")
Speaking of which, how 'bout _No Shirt, No Shoes, No Problems_ by Kenny Chesney? Great opening instrumental. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-shoes/352395/49 "2006-04-12T23:19:12Z")
Back to the Swing Era for a peppy numbah from the Bob Pope Orchestra, the toast of Charlotte, North Carolina, recording for Bluebird 78s in the local RCA dealer’s warehouse in 1936. **Breakin’ In a Pair of Shoes** words and music by Dave Franklin \*Got a date with someone I adore Now I’m late, I’ll bet he’s good ‘n sore I could cry, Breakin’ In a Pair of Shoes Some hot band will soon be deliverin’ Givin’ out music that’s Hot Should I dance, take a chance Owwwch! my toot-sies\* ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-shoes/352395/50 "2006-04-13T00:07:25Z")
> [@pseudotriton ruber ruber](#): > > Al Kooper’s “I Bought You The Shoes (you’re walking away in)”–may have the title wrong (and Kooper may have just performed it) but that’s the line I remember. That’s the song I came here to mention. It’s on that great double album of his from 1970: _“Easy Does It”_. He co-wrote it with Irwin Levine and Bob Brass. ---
**Author:** ![Cherry2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cherry2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cherry2000)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-shoes/352395/51 "2006-04-13T02:59:28Z")
Elton John’s **Who wears these shoes?** _My friends all say don’t got to pieces I say that’s fine but if I lose I want to know who’s in my foot steps I want to know who wears these shoes_ Joe Cocker’s **You Can Leave Your Hat On** _Baby take off your shoes…I’ll take off your shoes…_ and a personal favorite, Eartha Kitt’s **Cha Cha Heels** _Don’t you mess around with me, I know just what to do_ _I’ll put on my Cha Cha heels_ _And walk all over you_ ---
**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-shoes/352395/52 "2006-04-13T03:03:10Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > I think you mean _Boot Scootin’ Boogie_, and it’s by Brooks & Dunn. > If you’re gonna insult country music, at least get the names right. 😃 Typo + Song I Hate + Artist I Hate (Billy Ray, that is, not B&D) = :smack: :smack: :smack: trifecta ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-shoes/352395/53 "2006-04-13T03:51:00Z")
“Leather Boots” from _Flush The Fashion_ by Alice Cooper ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-shoes/352395/54 "2006-04-13T04:16:33Z")
No lyrics, but one of the all-time great titles: Charles Mingus, **The Shoes of the Fisherman’s Wife Are Some Jive-Ass Slippers**. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-shoes/352395/55 "2006-04-13T09:29:51Z")
How about **“Heard It in a Love Song”** by **The Marshall Tucker Band** : _I ain’t never been with a woman long enough for my boots to get old; We been together so long now they both need re-soled_ ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-shoes/352395/56 "2006-04-13T10:24:34Z")
> [@carlb](#): > > No need to be ashamed, because from now on whenever I hear that song I will imagine Felicity Huffman dancing on a bar in tight pants and a vest with no shirt (see _Desperate Housewives_ Episode 2.05). I always had a thing for her before that, but damn, can that woman move! Off topic a little more, I thought this was a great little nod to _Sports Night_, in which Huffman’s character Dana got the group kicked out of a bar where they were serving big blue drinks for half off (“I’m not promoting the economic upside so much as I am the chance to drink something big and blue.”), and then proceeded to pump the music in their offices and have an impromptu dance party. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-shoes/352395/57 "2006-04-13T12:31:17Z")
That theatrical classic [Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?](http://www.castalbumdb.com/rec.cfm?RNumber=278) ---
**Author:** ![LateComer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@LateComer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LateComer)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-shoes/352395/58 "2006-04-13T12:35:20Z")
How about [“Die with Your Boots On” by Iron Maiden](http://www.lyricstime.com/iron-maiden-die-with-your-boots-on-lyrics.html) from Piece of Mind? ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-shoes/352395/59 "2006-04-13T13:24:13Z")
Since someone beat me to Kirsty McColl, and since we’re not looking for only great songs, I’ll just throw in for completeness Bob Dylan’s “Boots of Spanish Leather” ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-shoes/352395/60 "2006-04-13T13:37:54Z")
I guess we might as well acknowledge that 80’s band from Zion, IL … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-shoes/352395.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-shoes/352395.md?page=4)