How could I have forgotten?!?
I thought I was the only Bobs fan on the boards. Pleased to meetcha!
Eddie Money - She takes My Breath Away
With those high heels,
Man, she makes me feel,
Like a rocket that’s off to the moon.
Also Adam Ant “Goody Two Shoes”
And if we’re stretching it to a mention of shoes within a song (I suppose it would also count in the Songs Mentioning Other Songs thread, Marc Cohn “Walking In Memphis.” (Put on my blue suede shoes, boarded a plane. Touched down in the land of the delta blues in the middle of the pouring rain.)
DAMN YOU!
The briefest glance at those words and I involuntarily started bopping in my seat like an idiot. Not that tripe will be with me all day…
“Don’t drink don’t smoke…”
NoW, not not.
What do you do?
None of you guys went to Vacation Bible School?
I got shoes, you got shoes
All of God’s children got shoes to wear
When I get to heaven gonna put on my shoes
Gonna walk all over God’s heaven, heaven, heaven!
The Guess Who – Your Nashville Sneakers
John Fogerty’s Centerfield – “Got a beat-up glove, a homemade bat, and a brand-new pair of shoes”
Alan Jackson’s Gone Country – “He’s gone country, look at them boots”
David Essex’s Rock On – “Jump up and down in my blue suede shoes”
Steve Miller Band’s Fly Like an Eagle – “Shoe the children/ With no shoes on their feet”
Mac Davis’s Poor Boy Boogie – “Poor boy got boogie-woogie bubblin’ in his shoes” (although it sounds more like “born right in his shoes”, and the site’s substitution of “juice harp” for “Jew’s harp” doesn’t exactly give me confidence in the transcriber)
James Bland’s composition Oh Dem Golden Slippers can be heard here.
Bart Davenport’s New Cool Shoes, with the very strange line “She’s got such brave puppies.”
And dipping into Broadway (courtesy of Zsofia’s religious mention): Godspell “By My Side.” (I’ll put a pebble in my shoe, and watch me walk…I will take him from my shoe, singing “meet your new road.”)
Actually, Elvis sang this to the top of the charts, but it’s really Carl Perkins’s song. Elvis always felt Carl deserved more credit for it.
For an informative interview with Perkins, and some more details about the song, CLICK HERE.
Have you ever wondered if Blue Swede is derived from Blue Suede?
Victoria Williams - Shoes:
Also Victoria Williams - Polish Those Shoes
Noe Venable - Boots:
Antique High Heel Red Doll Shoes by Rasputina
great song. I love it.
Let me just state here and now that I had no idea that shoes were so important in music. That’s a lot of songs!
Are there any other items of clothing that are big in music?
Start a thread and see. I’m sure there are lots of songs that mention rings, and skirts, and coats/jackets, and hats.
The pleasure is mine. Was it you who had “she puts the mascara on the eye of the storm” as your .sig?
When I saw “songs about shoes”, that was the only one that jumped out in my mind. I mean, I could probably come up with some individual lyrics, but that’s literally a song about shoes.
And just remembered another one…
Socks and Sandals (Graham Parker)
Since just referencing shoes appears to be allowed, One Life by The Pillows.
Do you by any chance mean Thirsty Boots by Eric Andersen?
This thread needs a little more country:
I walk and cry while my heartbeat
Keeps time with the drag of my shoes
The sun never shines through this window of mine
You’ll find me at the home of the blues
~Johnny Cash~
My arms keep reaching for you
My heart keeps aching for you
My lips keep calling for you
And my shoes keep walking back to you
~Ray Price~
Dancin’ shoes, You just gave me the blues
Gonna find me a brand new girl
And a brand new pair of dancin’ shoes
~Hank Locklin and others~
Piano-roll blues, I danced holes in my shoes
There weren’t another other way to be
For lovable losers, no account boozers
And honky-tonk heroes like me
~David Allen Coe?~
Has anyone mentioned "Walk a Mile in My Shoes by Joe South?
Walk a mile in my shoes, walk a mile in my shoes
Yeah, before you abuse, criticize and accuse
Walk a mile in my shoes
(Not a song* literally* about shoes, of course.)